M.Bedin, special service Commissioner, giving directions to his officers. These photographs of night raids by large detachments of Paris police in Montmartre are the first of their kind ever taken. International attention has been focused on activities of Caucasian gangsters white slavours and drug peddlers in the night haunts of Paris by the disappearance seven minutes ago of JeanDe Koven American dancer visiting Paris with her aunt. Following this and other unsavoury episodes the police cast their nets repeatedly on the underworld. 11 September 1937.