PROHIBITION A FARCE.
NEW YORK, February 25. Commissioner Knriglit’s raiding squadron (cabled January 28) seem unable to satisfy him. He summoned them to-day and announced that, detectives informed him there were thousands of saloons in New Aork where liquor can he obtained as freely ns in pre-prohibition days. These must be shut, and the liquor .supplies dried up. or the squad will be dismissed. The commissioner declared secret influence ini-, turning the squad against prohibition enforcement, and lie charged the policemen with being on the rolls of the liquor interests, who received advance information, when raids wore planned. A iorce ol detectives that is being used to watch these activities intimate that prohibition enforcement in New York lias become an opera bnuffo.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1924, Page 1
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122PROHIBITION A FARCE. Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1924, Page 1
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