CANADA DECLINES TO AID FURTHER TO STOP RUM-RUNNING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6809, 12 January 1929, Page 9

CANADA DECLINES TO AID FURTHER TO STOP RUM-RUNNING

Conference Breaks Down

STATES MUST MAKE GREATER EFFORTS TO ENFORCE OWN LAWS. Australian Press Association. Received Friday, 7.35 p.m. OTTAWA, Jan. 11. The United States to-day failed to obtain the conseut of the Canadian Government to a treaty for drastic efforts to suppress the yearly 100,000,000 dollar illicit liquor shipments from the Dominion.

A conference between American and Canadian officials here, over a period of several days, ended without’result. The United States wanted Canada to agree to refuse to issue papers to vessels clearing for United States

ports with cargoes of liquor. The American delegates departed feeling that the Canadian opinion is that America must make a more strenuous effort to enforce her own laws to halt smuggling before coming for help to a neighbouring country.

Nation-Wide Inquiry HOOVER WILL APPOINT HIS OWN INVESTIGATORS. Australian Press Association. Received Friday, 8.0 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 11. The New York World Washington correspondent states that an investigation throughout the nation into prohibition enforcement and the effect of the eighteenth, amendment and the Volstead Act with their relation to crime will be made by Mr. H. C. Hoover, is indicated here to-day. Mr Hoover does not want a biased report; therefore he prefers to name his own investigators to find the facts. Mr Hoover’s friends assert that he has told members of Congress he has 8 definite plan to carry out and has promised to name a commission to study the question in a thorough, careful and business-like manner.