APOLOGY TO HUNGARY
FOR VIOLATION OF DOMICILE
IN QUEST FOR1 ILLICIT LIQUOR,
(CNIIBD MISS ASSOCIATION. COpIRIQIfT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NE.W ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 24th January. Mr. O. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, has sent an apology to Hungary for the violation of a domicile attached to the Hungarian Legation by police officers during the recent liquor raid.
An- illicit liquor scandal threatening to touch the most exclusive and highly connected circles- in Washington was recently, disclosed. The Federal Grand Jury was asked to investigate and return indictments against three men already arrested and a Wge number of others, both sellers arid purchasers of intoxicants, under the conspiracy section of the Volstead) Lmv, which provides for the punishment of both parties in such transactions.
The police reported that part of the stock of liquor being sold was under the protection of a Foreign Legation, and that preliminary attempts at seizure were frustrated by .protests claiming diplomatic immunity.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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154APOLOGY TO HUNGARY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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