FOLLOWING A RAID
FOREIGN LEGATION VISITED. AMERICA APOLOGISES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 25, 9.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 24. Mr O. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, has sent an apology to Hungary for the violation of a domicile attached to the Hungarian Legation by police officers during the recent liquor raid. An illicit iiqnor scandal threatening to touch the most exclusive and highly connected circles in Washington was recently disclosed. The Federal Grand Jury was asked to investigate and return indictments against three men already arrested and a largo number of others, both sellers and purchasers of intoxicants, under the conspiracy section of the Volstead Law, wliich provides for the punishment of both parties in such transactions. The police reported that part of the stock of liquor being sold was under the protection of a Foreign Legation, and that preliminary attempts at seizure were frustrated by protests claiming diplomatic immunity.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11737, 26 January 1924, Page 5
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