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SENSATIONAL DISCT/NSUR ES WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Following sensational disclosures that the Federal Government employed socalled “( nder Governor” men who in order to trap bootleggers organised elaborate liiglit clubs, using •Government monies for the purpose. General Andrews sent a letter to the Senate explaining the reasons. The letter states: “The country is faced with numerous vast continuing conspiracies. It must recognise that violations are nation-wide and almost numberless. The Federal Government to meet this condition, must concentrate its efforts on large well organised illegal operations. Dry agents known to the criminal element could never hope to defeat the unknown, intelligent, unscrupulous men whose operations are necessarily enshrouded in darkness. It is similar to war. it' is necessary that agents he employed" who are qualified and do act as spies. No one likes the idea, hut it is as essential here as in the war secret service methods, and under cover men are absolutely neee*sarv, if the prohibition law is to he enforced.”
The revelations which aroused a great deal of interest showed that Government agents operated a night dub for many months, selling liquor to-the public and at tile same time intercepting during the delivery, large orders for liquor placed with bootleggers. The Club was later sold to a private individual who shortly after that was arrested.
U.B. DEATH BATES. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Coy., the largest of its kind in America. announced the death rate from alcoholism among the Company’s seventeen million policy holders was greater in 1926 than in any y<Dr since 1917. The rate in 1926 was three point seven per hundred thousand against three in 1925. The 1920 rate was six times as great Its 1920 which was the year of the lowest rate ever recorded. The highest rate was five point three in 1912. The announcement states unless the current- trend of alcoholism deaths is checked, 1928 will record rates as high as any year since 1911, which was the earliest for which data was available for the industrial population.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1927, Page 2
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