[Communicated to the Council and the Members of the League.] C. 209. M. 152. 1937. x i. [O.C.S.300 (d).] Geneva, April 1st, 1937. 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 JANUARY 1s t AND MARCH 31s t , 1937 PART I. CASES REPORTED IN PREVIOUS SUMMARIES IN REGARD TO WHICH FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED. No. 448. — Illicit Traffic by Dr. Fritz Müller, Dr. Hubert Rauch and Others, 1927 to 1929. SeeC.511.M.251.1932.XI The German Consulate at Geneva reports (February 22nd, 1937 [O.C.294(A:)], that the German subject, Dr. Diepenhorst, implicated in this case died pages 13-15, and C.566.M.277.1932.XI on August 15th, 1936. The proceedings against Kurt Smith of the [O.C.294{/)], page 6 . Tamara-Handelsgesellschaft, Hamburg, have been stopped for the time 16443/157. being, as this individual has been abroad since 1934. No. 77. — Seizure at Sofia on December 18th, 1935. See The Representative of Austria on the Advisory Committee states C. 167. M. 103.1936.X I (January 4th, 1937) that there is not and never has been in Vienna a [O.C.S.300], page 27. firm called “ The Isihi Egypt Co., Kobe In December 1929, the 22723/387. Swiss authorities discovered a widespread drug-smuggling organisation in which Dr. Hubert Rauch, of Vernier, Geneva, and Dr. Fritz Müller- O.C.S./Conf. 64(a). Widemann, Basle, were implicated.1 In Dr. Müller’s account-books there was an account also for a so-called firm “ The Isihi Egypt Co., Kobe ”, to which 70 kg. of narcotic drugs had been delivered in one year. These narcotic drugs were sent through Vienna. Nathan Altmann and Regina Metzendorf, of Vienna, were implicated in the smuggling operations. These narcotic drugs were probably bought by the Egyptian, Hussein El Neanay, then residing in Vienna. As can be seen from the archives of the Vienna Police Headquarters, the name “ The Isihi Egypt Co. ” was merely a pseudonym designed to deceive the Swiss authorities. According to the file in the International Bureau, Vienna Federal Police Headquarters, the individual described as “ Cherler ” was reported to the Bureau by the Sofia Police Headquarters as Guillermo (Willi) (Wilhelm) Mariano Scherler, born on August 17th, 1905, at Buczacz (Poland), Spanish national, merchant, unmarried, holder of passport No. 70, issued on September 12t.h, 1935, by the Spanish Legation at Istanbul. RESULTS OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH SEVERAL CASES OF ILLICIT TRAFFIC PREVIOUSLY REPORTED. Result Reference Name Imprisonment Fine Egypt. C. 124. M. 77.1937. XI Abdel Hamid El [O.C.S.300(c)], page 27, Kelani ......................... 2 years £E400 No. 413. Sayed Mohamed Selim . Mohamed Mohamed Ei R u b y .............................. I year £E60 Ahmed Ibrahim Hamman ................... Mohamed Ibrahim Youssef ....................... 6 months £E30 Mohamed Moursi Sakr . Ashour Ashour Amer .. By the Greek Consular Court C. 124. M.77.1937. XI Petro Perides . [O.C.S.300(c)], page 27, Sarandi Mastori 6 months No. 414. C. 124. M. 77.1937.X I Elias Rameh 6 months [O.C.S.300(c)], page 29, No. 418. C. 124. M. 77.1937. XI Sayed Ibrahi.................. [O.C.S.300(c)], page 32, Shehata......................... No. 429. Ali Hassan Aref ........... 2 years £E400 Mohd. Ai Abdel Fattah By the British Consular Court C. 124. M.77.1937.X I Shounou......... Acquitted [O.C.S.300(c)], page 33, Mohd. Gan . No. 432. Kalo Mansur 6 months C. 124. M. 77.1927. XI Agostinho Anteo 1 year £E200 [O.C.S.300(c)], page 33, No. 433. 1 See document C.51I.M.251.1932.XI[O.C.294(/t)], pages 13-15, No.448. S.d.N. 820 (F.) 695 (A.) 6/37. Imp. Granchamp, Annemasse. — 3 — PART II. A. REPORTS ON THE DISCOVERY OF CLANDESTINE MANUFACTURE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS. B. NEW CASES OF SEIZURES DIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING GROUPS : 1. R a w O p iu m . 5. Co c a in e . 2. P r e p a r e d O piu m a n d D ro ss. 6. I n d ia n H em p D r u g s. 3. M o r p h in e . 7. M iscellaneous. 4. H e r o in . A. REPORTS ON THE DISCOVERY OF CLANDESTINE MANUFACTURE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS. No. 449. — Discovery of a Rudimentary Installation for the Manufacture of Heroin at Sofia, November 25th, 1936. Reports communicated by the Bulgarian Delegation, Geneva, February 18th and March 3rd, 1937. Reference : 1(a). Apparatus and utensils for the manufacture of heroin. O.C.S./Conf. 203. _ _ . .. „ 1. Persons implicated : Eschua Friedmann , 1 alias Ese-hua Mayer 26749/387. and Eshua Ben Menachem Zion ; .Janko Parachkevoff Dimitroff,2 formerly a wrorkman at the St. Mladénoff Narcotics Factory ; Todor Nenoff Todoroff, trader at Sofia ; Takvor Setrakian, owner of a tannery in Sofia ; Todor Ivanoff Radeff, mechanic and proprietor of a mechanic’s workshop ; Lambri Kotzeff Lambreff, Sofia ; Nicolas Petro ff Piperevsky, Sofia ; Boris Dimitroff and Detcho Hadji Detcheff, Sofia ; Petre Tchoutcheff, Plovdiv ; Meyer Nissim Varon, a trader at Sofia ; Mariano, alias Heinrich der .Junge, Prague ; Hermann ; Jean Demison. 3. Friedmann arrived at Sofia from Vienna on November 6 th, 1936. He was placed under observation, and was arrested at Sofia station just as he was leaving again for Vienna. An examination of the correspondence found on him proved conclusively that he had not succeeded in purchasing any drugs, but had placed orders for heroin. As a result of further investigations, the police discovered a small rudimentary installation for the manufacture of heroin on the upper floor of the tannery belonging to Setrakian. Police investigations showed that Janko Dimitroff had in 1936 decided to set up a sort of workshop for the manufacture of heroin in conjunction with Todoroff. With this object, they had rented in June 1936 part of the upper floor of Setrakian’s tannery, where they installed the apparatus. The installation was working up to the end of October 1936. It appears from the statements of Dimitroff and Todoroff that they converted about 70 kg. of opium and obtained about 7 kg. of heroin. They did not possess the means necessary to purchase the raw opium themselves and simply converted opium for other people. They appear to have received from 3,500 to 4,000 leva for the preparation of 1 kg. of heroin. Lambreff, Piperevsky, Boris Dimitroff, Detcheff and Tchoutcheff were mentioned as having delivered raw opium or taken delivery of heroin. They appear to have procured the raw opium in small quantities direct from producers in the Petritch district. It has not been possible to determine exactly what was the destination of the heroin produced. It seems likely that a large part of it was lost owing to the inexperience of the manufacturers. About 1 kg. of heroin had been taken by Todoroff and Varon to Paris and sold there. Further, Janko Dimitroff and Todoroff travelled to Belgrade and Bucharest, where they got into touch with Mariano, Hermann and Jean Demison, but it is not possible to determine wrhether they sold them any heroin. Both traffickers declare that they did not export or sell any drugs, but that they went to Belgrade and Bucharest to meet certain international traffickers, with a view to setting up a drug factory on a more ambitious scale at Sofia, Belgrade or Prague. 4. The apparatus and utensils discovered in the workshop were confiscated and fines were imposed on all the offenders. No. 450. — Discovery of a Clandestine Heroin Factory at Tientsin on August 5th, 1936. Report communicated by the Chinese representative on the Advisory Committee, January 21st, 1937. Reference : 1(a). Heroin : 7 kg. 150 grs. O.C.S./Conf.l73. Opium juice : 8 earthen vessels. 14177/388 Utensils and paraphernalia for manufacturing heroin. 2. Persons implicated : Knodo, Watanabe Saburo, Sakhashi, Matsumoto, Mukai, Tsunoda, Nakajima, Watanabe, Matsumura, Matsuyama, all Japanese ; Wang Yao-tsu. Chinese. 1 See documents C.279.M. 130.1931.XI[O.C.294 (3)], page 21, and G.734.M.339.1931.XI[O.C.294{ft)J, page 7, No. 59. 3 See case No. 454 of this document. — 4 — 3 . Acting on secret information, the narcotic police, in conjunction with the Japanese police, raided a house in 27, Ma Ch’ang Tao, occupied by the Ping An Transporting Co. The above accused were arrested and the heroin, etc., seized. The Japanese police, claiming that most of those arrested were Japanese, not only took all the Japanese to the Japanese Consulate, but also all the evidence relative to the case, with the exception of the opium juice, which they spilt down the gutter. Wang Yao-tsu was brought before the Public Safety Bureau for triai. He claimed that he worked as a cook for Knodo, in the Japanese Concession, Tientsin. On July 26th, they moved to the Ping An Transporting Co., where he continued to work as a cook and all-round man. Later, he noticed that there was considerable loading and transporting during the night and he learned that the company was a heroin factory. He was occasionally asked by one Li Yu-vung, who seemed to be a liaison agent with the outer world, to lend a hand. No. 451. — Discovery of a Clandestine Heroin Factory at 41, Tsingtao Road, International Settlement, Shanghai, October 4th, 1935. Report communicated by the Shanghai Municipal Council, January 14th, 1937. Reference : 1 (o'!. Heroin: Approximately 57 gram m es (2 oz.), in 63 smal O.C.S./Conf.l71.