This document is communicated to Governments for confidential information in view of the fact that it has not yet been considered by the Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and other Dangerous Drugs. [Communicated to the Council Official No. : Q. 498. EVI. 251 . 1933. XI. and the Members of the League.] [O.C.294 (p).] Geneva, July 1st, 1933. LEAGUE OF NATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS SUMMARY OF ILLICIT TRANSACTIONS AND SEIZURES REPORTED TO THE SECRETARIAT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BETWEEN APRIL 1 s t AND JUNE 3 0 t h , 1 9 3 3 oinmuniqué au Conseil et No officiel: C.498. M.251. 1933, XI. Membres de la Société. (O.C.294[p]). ERRATUM. Genève, le 23 janvier 1934. SOCIETE DES NATIONS COMMISSION CONSULTATIVE DU TRAFIC DE L’OPIUM ET AUTRES DROGUES NUISIBLES Résumé des transactions illicites et des saisies communiquées au Secrétariat de la Société des Nations du 1er avril au 30 juin 1933. ERRATUM Cas No. 836, page 9 D ’après de nouvelles informations reçues par le Secrétariat, il ne s ’agissait pas d ’une affaire de fabrication clandestine, mais d adultération et de distribution illicite de drogues. Ce cas ne devrait donc pas figurer sous la rubrique Partie II.A. Rapport sur la découverte de fabrication clandestine de stupéfiants'", mais devrait être inclus parmi les saisies, comme suit: Partie II B. - Nouveaux cas de saisies. 5. Cocaïne. Dans le résumé du cas No. 836, sous le No. 3 (a), au lieu de Matériel pnur la fabrication de drogues", lire; "Matériel pour l ’adultération et la distribution de drogues. Page 22, la Note, placée au-dessous du Cas 893, page 22 est à supprimer. LEAGUE OF NATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS. Summary of illicit transactions and seizures reported to the Secretariat of the League of Nations between April 1st and June 30th, 1933. ERRATUM Case No. 836, page 9. According to further information received by the Secretariat this case was not one of clandestine manufacture but of adulteration and illicit distribution of drugs. It should thereiore not appear under the heading of Part II.A.- Reports on the Discovery of Clandestine Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs , but should be included among the Seizures, as follows:- Part II.B - New cases of Seizures. 5. Cocaine. Item 3(a), fourth line of the Summary of Case No. 836 should, instead of "Apparatus for the manufacture of drugs' read: "Apparatus for the adulteration and distribution of drugs. The Note following Case No. 893 on page 22 should be suppressed. P A R T I. CASES REPORTED IN PREVIOUS SUMMARIES IN REGARD TO WHICH FURTHER INFORMATION HAS REEN RECEIVED. No. 443.—Seizure of Morphine at Hamburg : Del Gracio Case. O .C ./A .R . The Central Narcotics intelligence Bureau, Cairo, reports (April 1933) i9p n r 994 /t. ) nncp 19 ^ a t, according to a statement made by Elie Eliopoulos in August 1931, be ' ’ “ the consignment of morphine was ordered by Del Gracio in 1930 from 1083/1072. the Kuskundjuk Factory run by Mechelaere at Istanbul, to be specially packed in cases of machine parts. Mechelaere promised to despatch the morphine through Hamburg, but he intended to extract the morphine from the cases and send only the machine parts to America. He made arrangements with Roman Zahar, a commission agent of Istanbul and with Ekrem Bey, manager of the “ Compagnie Interconti­ nentale 1,1 of Prague, with branches at Hamburg and Istanbul, to despatch the cases to Karl Frank at Hamburg, instructing him to find a purchaser for the drugs and to forward the machine parts to America. Frank got into touch with Gourievides, who approached Del Gracio as a possible buyer. Del Gracio was therefore being asked to buy his own consignment He at once went to Istanbul to see Mechelaere, who declared that it was not Del Gracio’s consignment at Hamburg, but Del Gracio was suspicious and, through Constantin Belokas, got an introduc­ tion to Seya Moses in Berlin. He left for Berlin accompanied by Elie Abouissac and it was on his arrival there that he was arrested by the German authorities. No. 541.—Illicit Traffic in Drugs at Opava, Czechoslovakia, July and August 1931. See O.C.294 page 12. The Government of Czechoslovak ia reports (December 21st, 1932) •28965/157 that no drugs were seized in connection with this case and that the enquiries undertaken by the Czech authorities for the purpose of ascertaining the origin of the drugs concerned led to no result. In addition to fines for infraction against the law concerning excise duties inflicted on a number of persons involved in this case, the following individuals were fined for infraction of the narcotic drugs laws : Charles Hônig, a fine of 5,000 kr., or twenty-five days’ imprisonment ; Leopold Schrotter, a fine of 1.500 kr., or seven days’ imprisonment ; Bruno Liebreich, a fine of 200 kr., or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. No. 552.—Illicit Traffic by Mechel Halpern, Baruch Kleiner and Nussenbaum, February and March 1932. See O.C.29i(l), page 16, The Austrian representative on the Advisory Committee reports pa»^,^ (May 8th, 1933) that the Istanbul police have communicated to the Austrian police the following information concerning this affair : The 35696/ 157. investigations undertaken by the Istanbul police have revealed that no publishing firm of the name of Walter exists at Jüksekkaldirim No. 522, Istanbul. Formerly an Austrian named Fritz Plaschki occupied this shop and the son of Mechel Halpern, Abraham David (Polish), worked with him. The Roumanian, Walter Dezeder, lived atPera, a quarter of Istanbul, but he left on June 21st, 1932, by train for Bulgaria. A search was made at the premises occupied by David and Plaschki (rue Aynalicesme, No. 27) and 11 kg. of a white powder and scales were seized. An analysis of the powder proved that it was not a narcotic poison. Abraham David left Istanbul on February 10th, 1932, for Germany. No. 558.—Seizure at New York, ex the " Ile-de-France ”, April 1932 : Joseph Frankel Case. 0.C.S.116. A/. Mondanel, Divisional Commissioner of the French Sûreté Générale. paces'i'"'94 '!{’% Paris, informed the Advisory Committee, during its session in May 1933, O.C.294fn)1,1 pa<r’e 5, that this consignment of toys had been shipped in five cases by the firm andÔ.C.294(ojîpage 7.of Bernard, of Paris, at the request of a certain Charles Condyser, 33, See also O.C.S.tiO. rue Montholon, Paris, who is, however, unknown at this address. The 1383/.-7,f i r m of Bernard stated that this individual had declared that he was going to Cherbourg to embark on the Olympic. Some days after the seizure in New York, the American authorities sent the French police photographs of a bill and letter discovered in the residence of Frankel. The bill was for the purchase of a hundred dozen toy lanterns with the heading Condyser, 33, rue Montholon, , ‘ For the list ol previous references to the persons mentioned above, see Case No. 901, of this document. Previous reference to thf •• Intercontinentale " forwarding agency will also be found in document O.C/294(7A page 87, and No. 867, of this document, “'addition to the branches of this firm at the places mentioned above, there are also branches at Trieste, Budapest and Burgas, Bulgaria. o70 (F.) 545 {A.) 10/33.— lm p. Réunies, S. A-, Chambéry. — 4 — and the letter contained the address of a toyshop establishment in Paris. At this establishment it was learnt that a man called Wolf, 30, rue de la Bienfaisance, Paris, had ordered certain toys, bringing cases for packing the goods and taking them away in taxis. At No. 30, rue de la Bienfaisance no one of the name of Wolf is known. But from information received it appeared that the description of Wolf corresponded with that of Condyser. Interrogation of the taxi- drivers concerned revealed the identity of the packer who made the cases and the garage where they were provisionally stored before shipment. The packer stated that a client named Liezel, Hôtel Moderne, Paris, had placed several orders for cases with him, but Liezel was unknown at the Hotel Moderne. In a number of photographs shown to him, however, the packer recognised one, a photo of Polakiewitz, as being that of his client, who had taken in turn the names of Condyser, Wolf and Liezel. The manager of the garage said that he had let the garage for three months to a certain Adolphe Caro, who is none other than Polakiewitz. On June 18th, 1932, Polakiewitz was surprised and arrested in Paris, together with Herzberg, his principal accomplice, in the act of packing morphine in a cardboard box. They had also on the premises 1 kg. of morphine paste contained in a basin. Polakiewitz admitted that two parcels of slippers, discovered during the search at the garage, represented the remains of a consignment of four cases of slippers, in which he had placed some 15 kg. of morphine, shipped at Havre on the s.s. Vincent on the same day as his arrest. The American authorities, who were at once informed by the French Sûreté Générale of the facts, seized the four cases and found in one of them 15 kg. 851 grs. of morphine. 1 Polakiewitz added that he had made the two shipments on the Ile-de-France and on the Vincent for the account of Adelman, alias Edelman Fish, alias I. Givot, to whom he wrote at the Hotel Roosevelt at New York.