Birmingham Post Herald · Birmingham, Alabama · 4 December 1927
CP-1927-020
Palestine Arabs Smuggle Hashish Following Edict
International News Service, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, Dec. 3. — (I.N.S.) — The Sinai Peninsula, always the main road for hashish traffic between Egypt and Palestine, has been the scene recently of several exciting encounters with smugglers. One band was pursued for hundreds of miles across difficult country but because of a two days’ start the caravan was not overtaken. The trail led, however, to a mountain near the Gulf of Suez where 77 kilos of hashish were concealed pending the arrival of boats and a caravan of camels to run the consignment to Cairo. A group of Palestine Arabs was caught in Raffa on the coast landing hashish from a boat. The smugglers under the heavy fire of the patrol beat a hasty retreat leaving behind a dead camel and 265 kilos of hashish. The police expect to capture the smugglers having identified the tribe to which they belong by the marks on the camel. The Palestine tobacco ordinance has just been amended restricting to the minimum the area in which hashish may be planted.”
Context added by this archive
A crime brief, kept for two things it records in passing: that hashish was a planted crop in Palestine whose acreage the government was restricting by ordinance, and that the police expected to find the men by reading the ownership marks on a dead camel.
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"Palestine Arabs Smuggle Hashish Following Edict," Birmingham Post Herald, 4 December 1927. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1927-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1927-020
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