WAR ON LIQUOR.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17984, 30 January 1924, Page 10

WAR ON LIQUOR.

RAIDS IN NEW YORK.

PHILADELPHIA CHECKS CRIME.

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(Received January 29th. 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. January 28. Police raids in Philadelphia and New York continue with might and main, such scenes being enacted as were never dreamt of before. It is not unusual to have a. thousand arrests during Philadelphia's weekend. the police utilising high-powered motors to scour the city day and nighfT. Robberies and hold-ups have "virtually stopped. The cities' exits and entrances are by police, to prevent the escape of criminals after acts of violence. It is in the matter of Prohibition, however, that General Butler has evolved something unsual. Many precincts have a policeman stationed at every so-called "near beer" - parlour, who enters with customers and sees what they aro served with. There are 26 parlours in one of the busiest sections of the city and each has a patrol man before it.

Commissioner Enright. of New York, designated a special raiding squadron, which began work by entering the most select cafes and restaurants m the theatre district during rush hours. Patrons in evening dress hissed and jeered while arrests were made and stores of liquor ferretted out from concealed cupboards. CA real war between law and vice is in progress in Philadelphia* For the first time in American history a inilitary officer has been given charge of the police force, with absolute power to wipe out crime. Over a fortnight ago General Smedley Butler gave the police 48 hours in which to clean up the city and padlock tho saloons.]