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preprinted rroin M m “ Times ” the most Read wbat the London say© about outrageous persecution of modern times. Mo wonder lawless® ness is rampant in U.S.A. when prohib® ition is creating a nation of criminals. TIMES ; MONDAY, JULY 23, 1928. “WET” FINGER-PRINTS IN U.S.A. INDEX 'OF PROHIBITION OFFENDERS. British Laws for British People (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) NEW YORK, July 22 Dr Doran, the Commissioner of Prohibition in Washington, gave orders yesterday for a more strenuous campaign against violations of the liquor laws, and for its more effective prosecution the taking of finger-prints, hitherto employed only upon those charged with a felony, is to be extended to misdemeanants. Henceforth anyone in the United States who gives anyone else a drink of anything containing more than one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol, or who transports even a minute quantity of such a drink no farther than' say, across the street, or who has such liquor in fus possession, makes himself liable to have his' fingerprints taken, and to have them and his Bertillon measurements, together with a record of his life and doings, included in a sort of* “National Rogues’ Gallery.” Nor are these all the offences which make one eligible for such distinction possibilities of transgression of V'tfte Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment are as the sands of the sea, and every one of them which involves a misdemeanour can earn the offender k his finger-prints and his dossier in Washington As an offset, however, prohibition agents operating on the highways are henceforward to be distinguished by blue caps and shiny badges, so that when these agents shoot at motorists running away from what they think is a “ hold up ” the motorists may know that they are being lawfully shot at. Ignorance of the identity of prohibition agents has been responsible in the past for the death or serious injury of many innocent, or comparatively innocent, persons _ VOTE CONTINUANCE Strike out the ITttfo ‘Bottom Lines ! vole for

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