LEAKS IN DRY LAW.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 6 November 1925, Page 5

LEAKS IN DRY LAW.

HIGH OFFICIALS BLAMED. A SERIOUS SITUATION". •LEADERS IN CONFERENCE. (T.y Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 5. Fifteen national prohibition leaders are meeting in the Prince George Hotel for the purpose of drawing up a programme of law enforcement for presentation to the next Congress. Advised by the chairman to "Speak the messages you have in your hearts," Mr. Edwin Dinwiddie, superintendent of the National Temperance Bureau at Washington said: "I want to say that any time the President demands prohibition enforcement he can get it. The situation is serious. Cabinet officers, senators and other leaders of the Legislature, find it easy to disobey the law themselves and use their influence to free their henchmen caught in the toils of the law." Rev. Dr. Clarence Wilson, secretary of the Temperance Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, declared: "I expect Mr. Andrew Mellon, Secretary to the Treasury, to say before the next general election that Prohibition cannot he enforced. He is a former brewery owner and a banker for brewery interests. Mr. Mellon tore down the previous -fine enforcement organisation. General Andrews, president of the enforcement forces, is a strong man, but over him are three or four men opposed to Prohibition. They have forced him to change Ids appointments and alter his policies. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)