PARIS APACHE QUARTER
SUDDEN RAID BY POLICE More than 200' people were carried off by the police in a raid on the Paris apache quarter'at the Rue do Lappe, behind the Bastille, recently !l is a narrow street, into which, from dusk till midnight during the season, crowds of tourists are set down from charabanc', tc take peep at the typical apache quarter of the city. (iuides lead (he way through dimly-lit passages and alleys to one or other of the nuinerou- " ha’s musettes —squalid, barn-like dance halls, so named because payment is made at the rate ol halfpenny pci- dance n a man who collects the money in a hag slum.' round his neck. The police mingled with the crowd. Suddenly a signal was given. The music (usually au accordion) ceased. ‘ 'liais and coal- and into the cars,” a police nlUcc slum Led. One man put a serviette on his waistcoal and pretended, unsuccessfully, to bo a waiter. All the 200 were questioned at police headquarters Some were to be charged.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4011, 4 August 1931, Page 2
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