DRUG TRAFFIC
Big Police Coup HIGHLY PLACED GANG Press Association. —Copyright, Constantinople, April 11. —Wjiat is claimed to bo tho biggest police coup in connection with illicit drug traffic was achieved through the skill of a Turkish detective posing as a rich American tourist living in the best hotel and spending £3OO a month. Among those arrested are leading business men, hotel proprietors, agents for a British firm, a Greek actress and 80 of the gang’s underlings. Four secret heroin factories were discovered, capable of supplying a ton of the drug a month. The drug' was exported by sea, air and land.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 219, 12 April 1933, Page 5
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102DRUG TRAFFIC Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 219, 12 April 1933, Page 5
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