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Sensational Sequel, A BIG POLICE COUP TRAFFICKERS IN HEROIN 11IGHLY-PLACET) GANG AN ASTUTE DETECTIVE: 3y Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Constantinople, April 11 What is claimed to be tbe biggest police coup in connection with the illicit drug traffic has been achieved through the skill of a Turkish detective, who posed as a. rich American toners! lived at the best, hotel and spent £3OO a month. Among those arrested are several jeading business men, hotel pro-Pnet-ors, agents for a, British linn, a. Greek actress, and eighty of the gang s underlings. Four secret lie rod n factories capable of supplying a toil of the drug a month have been discovered. The drug was exported bv sea, air, and land. (Turkey recently joined up with the League oi Nations’ convention to suppress the drug traffic.)
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3998, 12 April 1933, Page 5
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