SPECIAL CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1922, Page 1

SPECIAL CABLE NEWS.

BREAKDOWN OF PROHIBITION. LONDON, November 29. The “Daily Telegraph” correspondent at New York has cabled as follows: “The breakdown of Prohibition long apparent to every man with eyes to see and cash to buy from bootleggers, is now admitted by the Washington Cabinet. FURTHER PARTICULARS. LONDON, November 29. Tlie “Times” New \ r ork correspondent telegraphs to-day the failure of prohibition to prohibit is causing the Government increasing concern. The whole subject was considered at a Cabinet meeting recently. The facts and figures cited at this meeting arc said to have appalled the President who regarded the situation as so serious that lie was with difficulty dissuaded from issuing a. proclamation appealing to the wealthier classes of the nation to abandon their present defiance of the law. The belief of those members of the Cabinet who opposed the idea of a proclamation was that it would be fruitless. According fo statements attributed to the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr Mellon, the enforcement of the law is impossible even if an army of prohibition officials he employed in the task because as he points out the bribes offered them to ignore their duties are beyond the dreams of avarice. Information reaching the administration is to the effect that whisky, nines and other intoxicating beverages are now flowing in torrents over all the borders of tile United States.