EIGHTY ARRESTS IN COCAINE RAID.
BERLIN, March 30. The Berlin police, who ever since the revolution have been waging a not always successful war on the numberless secret cocaine dens raided last night one of the most dangerous centres of this traffic in a fashionable West End quarter and arrested no fewer than eighty persons, among them men well known in Berlin public life. A luxurious new coffee-house was opened four weeks ago opposite the famous- Sea la. Music Hall It soon attracted the attention of Berlin detectives, but precautionary measures taken by the. proprietor were so complete that they baffled all attempts of the police" to make discoveries. • The door, porter of the coffee-house \ carefully inspected every visitor enter- , ing. If a visitor seemed at all susj picious. the wary janitor pressed a buti ton which rang a bell upstairs and I warned the inmates in time to turn j them into innocent drinkers of coffee. A body of twenty-five detectives, however, forced an entrance last night while one of them prevented the porter from ringing the bell.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17854, 24 May 1926, Page 13
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