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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13948, 3 January 1906, Page 4

. / , , ..y: Drastic police action is, on the initiative of the Kaiser, being taken against the gambling clubs of the German capital, owing tp the numerous scandals oi recent years. The 1900 Club is espe* dally the object of suspicion. It cost £50,000 to build, another £2o,ooo.:‘wai‘ . spent in equipment, and rthe, qjub’a commission on the stakes : changing hands amounts to £SOOO a month. As this commission is small, the sum reveals that the money -changing handil in the club in a year must be reokdaed at hundf edsi of thousands of pounder* i-