THE PROHIBITORY LAW.
WOOD ALCOHOL SOLD AS WHISKY. By Electric Telegrapn.—Copy right. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. NEW YORK, Deo. 27. Reports indicate that 65 persons have died at Hartford (Connecticut) and Chicopee (Massachusetts), Chicago, and New York, us the result of drinking whisky. It is announced that 42 deaths occurred in New York in 1919 from wood-alcohol poisoning, and also that countless persons have been blinded throughout thp country from the same cause. Federal and local officials throughout the nation are taking extraordinary steps to stump out the sale of wood-alcohol, and to inform the public to beware of illegal liquors. Several men who have sold wood alcohol as whisky have been arrested at Hartford and charged with murder. MAY SUE FOR £100,000,000. VANCOUVER, Dec. 17. A message from Chicago states that tho national liquor interests threaten to sue tho United States Government for £100,000,000 as losses, through tho enforcement of wartime prohibition after th 3 war ended. Export shipments are, being diverted towards Cuba, and several large shipments aro going to Hamburg, Germany.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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