AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. “BOOTLEG” WAR. OYER 800 -ARRESTS. NEW YORK, September 23. A message from Chicago states with three bootleggers shot dead dining the past three days in a feud between two factions controlling the illicit liquor trade there, the police have started energetic measures to curb their activities. There have been 827 persons arrested in the last 24 hours, charged with participating in an illegal traffic of alcoholic beverages, which yearly returns millions in profits, and is said to be undermining municipal government, and the Police Department by a hugo bribe system. Mayor Dover and tho City Council are at loggerheads over the question of the revocation of licenses to the soft drink parlours, which, under the cloak of dispensing non-alco-holic beverages, soil vast quantities of ‘•bootleg” liquor. The Council voted against revocation but Mayor Dover, with the help of tli c police, has closed 38 such places. The Mayor claims tho city thugs and thieves have gone into bootlegging, as they find this more profitable than plying their own trade?.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1923, Page 2
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176AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1923, Page 2
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