LIKE MARNE BATTLE
WABNING EIFLE SHOTS
PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT
(Eeceived 9th December, 11 a.m.) , WASHINGTON, Bth December. Determined efforts are still being] made to smuggle liquor into the United States from sea, according to thaj annual report of Commissioner Doran< One preventive officer, he says, recently) returned to headquarters saying that the progress of his. men through al State sounded like the Battle of the Marne, as so many unseen rifles, firedi at set distances, warned homefolk oS. their approach. Last year Federal officers made* 68,000 arrests, and there were 54,000' convictions. The flues exceeded' £1,000,000. The Prohibition Department's report adds that for the year ending 30th] June, gaol sentences aggregating oveij fourteen thousand years had been imposed on violators of the Volstead Act^ A total of 567 charges of corruption; among Prohibition. enforcement officials were investigated. "In n very] large proportion of cases the charges were either absolutely disproved orj dropped for lack of evidence," said the report. Two million gallons of whisky wen* legally manufactured for medicinal purposes. A total of 5633 automobiles . valued at 3,290,000 dollars, and 6* boats were confiscated when found' transporting -liquor.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9
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187LIKE MARNE BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9
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