DRY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1924, Page 2

DRY LAW ENFORCEMENT

A SEXATOIt SHOT. iUSTItALTAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, February 16. _____ S( nator Green, of Vermont, was shot and seiiouslv wounded during a glut battle on the street between internal revenue agents and bootleggers. In reply to the British Government, tin latest American communication regal ding the seizure beyond the three mile limit of the British flag schooner, Tomaka. alleged to be a rum runner, is expected to disclose in a specific way. tlie extent the now British Ministry would go in its announced desire to protect the British flag from misuse in connection with the liquor smuggling traffic. .Mr Hughes, in reply to the protest, as.-irted that while the ship was under tile British flag, she was Americanowned. The enterprise was the effort of! an American citizen to use the British flag-as a cloak. INVESTIGATION TO BE HELD. NEW YORK, Feb. 16. The “New York Sun’s” Washington correspondent says the shooting of Sen- ---. a tor Green probably assures an exhaustive Congressional investigation in connect ion with tlio enforcement of thes__ prohibition law m Washington.,if not nationally ILo incident is not the liitt wherein the lives of pedestrians e been endangered, by pistol Battles , prohibition officers’ and bootleggers’ chases through the- streets hate been numerous and a number of accidents have already occurred to hy-standers. TJie Citizens’ Association passed a revolution asking for the practice to be stopped. The whole question is complicated by a four-cornered dissension between tlio city police, Treasury Department officials, the State Department investigators, and the Federal enforcement agents, who charge each other with dishonesty, several persons ci all sides being recently suspended. Charges of liquor purchases by high officials and ordinary citizens are in-" creasing. There has been repeated demands hitherto for an investigation of tlio si;cation, but every move for a public enouiiy lias fallen short of the mark. Cieon's shooting, however, has aroused his friends who arc planning adequate action.