SPIES AND “ SPEAK-EASIES."
The Washington (D.C.) News of December 7, 1927, publishes the following:— il A professional informer in Washington the other day toli the police his own sister was violating the prohibition law. ITe led the police to her home, a d she was arrested.” The Journal, Providence, says: ** The enforcement of the prohibition law is a plain farce over very large areas of the United States. National prohibition has not accomplished the reforms for which it was intended, but has produced new evils and aggravated old ones. The sale of intoxicating liquor goes on, only half concealed, in every ruction of the country.” Prohibition : = *r l:w il ♦ ; fto British : . Kc* p it cut cf New Zealand.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 256, 4 October 1928, Page 4
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118SPIES AND “ SPEAK-EASIES." Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 256, 4 October 1928, Page 4
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