TRAFFIC IN DRUGS
CONSTANTINOPLE POLICE COUP.
(United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 11
What is claimed as the biggest police coup in connection with the illicit drug traffic whs achieved through the skill of a Turkish detective. He kept posing as a rich American tourist, living at the best hotel, and spending three hundred sterling per month. Among those arrested are leading businessmen, hotel proprietors, agents for a British firm, a Greek actress and eighty of the gang’s underlings.
Four secret heroin factories have been discovered, capabloi of supplying a ton of the drug each month. The drug is exported by sea, air and land.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1933, Page 5
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