PROHIBITION EVASION
POLICE HELP SMUGGLERS. / , LONDON, October 23. The Helsingfors correspondent of the “Times” states that an unprecedented number of infringements of the prohibition laws. Jias taken place in Finland during recent weeks. A police pilot-boat, which has just returned from the latest fracas with the smuggling flotilla, reports that a policeman jumped on to the smuggelrs’ boat in order to stop the motor. The crew overpowered him and threw him into the sea, with a broken arm. Fortunately a police boat happened to be in the vicinity and it picked him up in an unconscious condition after he had had a long "struggle to keep afloat. Liquor policemen were caught in the act of helping the smugglers to load large quantities of liquor on to motor lorries. When they were arrested they admitted that they had for a long time co-operated with smugglers for substantial bribes. General J slander, Governor of Hyland, admits that two-thirds of the liquor police this year were dismissed for liquor offences.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1929, Page 4
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