CRIME INCUBUS
WORLD-WIDE CONCERN LEGACY OF GREAT WAE. ALMOST AS DESTRUCTIVE. (United Service.) (Received 9 a.m.) LLONDON, Aipril 20. - The following appears in today’s issue of the “Daily Mail”:— “Checking crime is no longer a civic or national matter, but a question of international moment,” declares Mr Richard Ehwright, president of the International Police Conference and Police Commissioner of New York from seven years, who is going back to America after investigations in Europe preparatory to the Paris Conference in November, when 50 nations will be represented. He adds: “War will be declared on criminals throughout the world. Police work in every country will be. reviewed.” The agenda includes traffic problems, particularly in connection with motor bandits, illiet drug traffic and international police reciprocity. Mr Enright says: “Crime is increasing, owing to the aid of modern scientific devices. Criminality is almost as destructive as the Great IWiar, which left at legacy of guns distributed illicitly throughout the world.”
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Northern Advocate, 22 April 1929, Page 5
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