The Archive · 1939

Seize Heroin

Japanese Owners of Straw Hut Elude Detectives Five male and one female Chinese were arrested and 61 packets of heroin were seized yesterday at 8.40 p.m. when a straw hut off Tonquin Road was raided by detectives from Gordon Road police station. A Japanese member of the S.M.P. and a Japanese Consular police officer accompanied the raiders. Although the hut is known to be owned by Japanese who are suspected of being involved in the traffic of drugs, no Japanese were found on the premises at the time of the raid. The Chinese who were arrested are being qustioned, and further investigations will be made, Cauviy. Martin, 28-year-old steel worker, has filed two separate petitions for divorce. The first charged gross neglect against his first wife, Clara, 26. The second asked legal severance from Thelma, 27. His petition said he married her when he thought he was divorced from Clara, but was'

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