SECOND TO CHICAGO.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 7

SECOND TO CHICAGO.

Startling Reputation Earned By Boston. ILLICIT LIQUOR TRAFFIC. NEW YORK, December 10. The startling statement has been made that Boston has now. assumed a place second onlyto Chicago as a centre of vice. : It is stated that the illicit - liquor traffio has under the prohibition law reached the staggering figure of £12,000,000 a year. Four " thousand "speak easies" and 15,000: professional bootleggers supply the city with 90,000 gallons of liquor a week, while it is alleged that policemen in uniform, and driving police cars, are active agents in the delivery of liquor. SACRED RELICS. IN CLEMENCEAU'S COFFIN. ; PARIS, December 6. It is revealed that the late M. Georges Clemenceau, in his will, directed that various articles be placed in;his coffin, including an iron-headed walkingstick, "which is of my youth," also "a goatskin-covered box, leaving in it a little book, put therein by the hands of my dear mother"—the book is a 1828 edition of the "Marriage of Figaro"— and dried-up bunches of flowers in a vase made from a German shell. These have a tragic history. ; When Clemenceau visited the front before the German offensive in July, 1918, he was informed, of new -French tactics, placing a thin line ahead of, the main forces- to give confidence to the Germans. He paid a farewell visit to men selected for the sacrifice, and i a non-com. offered him the bunches. Clemenceau, almost in tears; replied: "My children, these shall go with me in my coffin."