THE PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3587, 25 September 1920, Page 5

THE PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.

"PUSSYFOOT"IN SCOTLAND

STATEMENT OF INTENTIONS

LONDON, Sept. 23

Mr "Pussyfoot" Johnson, interviewed at Plymouth to assist the prohibition campaign in Scotland.

Received 9.40 a.m

LONDON, Sept. 24

Mr "Pussyfoot" oJhnson, interviewed; said that if the British want Prohibition 'hey should have it, "I am going to pump prohibition into the Scots as hard as I know how. There is much less illicit trafficing in drink in America than was expected. Only ten million gallons of whisky were drunk last year. Labour was more contented under Prohibition. I am convinced that England will go dry, at that one-third of Euorpe is nearer to National Prohibition than America was a decade ago."

AMERICAN CORK PRICES.

Received 9 # 40 a.m., NEW YORK, Sept. 24

For the first time since 1917, corn sold at Chicago for less : ban one dollar per bushel, December supplies being quitted at 99 5.-8 .cents.