WORSE THAN WAR

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1929, Page 5

WORSE THAN WAR

WORLD’S CRIME Police Must Combine (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received ’April 21 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. The “Daily Mail” reports: —“The checking of crime is not any longe; a. civic or a national matter, but a question of international moment.” That is the declaration of Commissioner Richard Enright, President of the International Police Conference, and the Police CommisMner of New for the past seven yerrs. He is now going back to America after making investigations in Europe preparatory to an international police conference in November at Paris, where fifty nations will be represented. Commissioner Enright I “ War will be declared on criminals throughout the world. The police work in every country will be reviewed.”

The agenda includes the traffic problem, particularly that in connec tion with motor the illicit, drug traffic,‘ and Lcernational police reciprocity. Conuu’ssioner Enright says: “Crime i)s increasing owing to the aid ofi modern scientific devices. Criminality is almost as destructive as the Great War, which has left a legacy of guns distributed illicitly throughout the