ENFORCING PROHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 7

ENFORCING PROHIBITION

DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTY MR. HUGHES APOLOGISES. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.-~COPXRIGHT.) : (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) .' NEW YORK, 26th January. The "New York Times" Washington correspondent says that the State Department is more or less perturbed as the result of attempts by the overzealous police to enforce Prohibition in connection with liquor raids. Mr. C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, to-day wrote the. Polish Minister, M. Wrobbewski, expressing regret that the police entered the Legation. It had ' been complained that diplomatic immunity has. not been observed. Mr. Hughes, however, concluded that it had been determined that the secretary had in his possession a quantity of alcoholic beverages greatly exceeding the privileges and immunities accorded in this regard, and it had been a matter of concern that diplomatic immunity had been abused. Mr. Hughes, however, was glad to learn that the secretary had been transferred to Warsaw. An illicit liquor scandal threatening to touch the most exclusive and highly connected circles in Washington was recently disclosed. The police reported that part of the stock of liquor being sold was lindor the protectioh of a Foreign Legation, and that preliminary attempts at seizure, were frustrated by protesta chiming diplomatic immunity.