IN PROHIBITION'S TRAIN.
STARTLING ALLEGATIONS. INCREASE OF DRUG-TAKING. (Received 5.35 a.m.l LOXDOX, November 0. The -Times" New York correspondent, in a startling article, declares that, accordiiur to police and other reports, prohibition hae been followed by a wave of increased drug-taking. The vice has trebled in such .State? as Colorado. Utah, and Montana.
Extreme Socialistic and Bolshevistic movements, particularly the I.YV.W., are gainimr ground, and a large percentage of law-abiding trade unionists are joinbig, believing that prohibition is tlic outcome of anti-Labour movement?. A new entry has been adde.l to the police lists: "Death due to drinking wooit alcohol." —("Times.")
Ohio has tripled the former "dry"' majority in the vote taken this week.— (A and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 5
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117IN PROHIBITION'S TRAIN. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 265, 7 November 1919, Page 5
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