Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-09 | Page 25 | Britain in Grip of Immense 'Drug Ring'

BRITAIN IN GRIP ! OP IMMENSE ' 1UGRING' Smugglers Take Dangerous Chances in Bringing Forbidden Goods i'. mm 1 BIU in m i: LONDON, Jan. I While fighting for her life during the war, England seems to have been shell -shocked Into an ever-Increasing use of drugs. In Llmehouse district. which Is I london's Chinatown, drug traffic has I grown to such an extent that Chlna-imcn Chlna-imcn will trike long chances at smuggling smug-gling and they are slipping tn drugs 1 I .t quantities. Recently a Chinaman arrived on a -lui. from the orient, wearing shoes 1 with higher heels than usual- He was I searched. In each heel was a spring I door, inside of which was found two I ounces of opium. I VDOR6 I M i l Rl l. several wnlte men were naieu beiore police court charged with hav-jlng hav-jlng 'Z ounces of morphU. enough to' 1 kill o.OOO persons. Others arrested Ware 1 tiarged with having hundreds of tubes of cocailnc and other narcotics. I Authorities are convinced th re is a center for drug traffic located in Belgium or France. In a suitcase of a man, staying at a fashionable ho-tel, ho-tel, they found a letter which said In part: I "It needs five or six very discreet land very sober Intermediaries to han-dle han-dle the poddllng part of the business. A fool, a chatterer, a drunkard, a gambler, gam-bler, or a user of It are good fellow workers. They must be chosen for slk-nce, rapidity of thought, action and their knowledge of bona fide users. "The youngster written about yesterday yes-terday Is a very bright London str et Arab. He ha- worked in almost every restaurant and hotel m London and knows all the reputed users of the stuff, both men and women." LETTER PI Bl SHED Another letter emphasized that, "as the cocaine supply is coming direct from the manfacturer. it is most important im-portant to organize sales In small packets vv. ighlng about 16 grains. This means that J grains of pure cocaine can be added to 12 grains of impure." There Is probably no place on earth where tobacco is more universally used than here. Theaters, restaurants and BUbWaya allow It with both men and women. tn the Old d iys the English railroads labeled the couches in which smoking was allowed. Now they label those In , which it is NOT ALLOWED.