HUGHES REGRETS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 8

HUGHES REGRETS

SEQUEL TO RAIDS DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY NOT OBSERVED. OVER-ZEALOUS POLICE. Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 27, 11.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 26. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says that the State Department is more or less perturbed as the result of attempts by tne overzealous police to enforce prohibition in connection with liquor raids. Mr C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, to-day wrote the Polish Minister, M. Wrobbewski, expressing regret that the police entered ihe legation It has been. complained that diplomatic immunity has rot been observed Mr Hughes, however, concluded that it had been determined that the secretary had in his possession a quantity of alcobolio beverages greatly exceeding the privileges and immunities accorded in this regard, and it had been a matter of concern that diplomatic immunity 'had been abused. Mr Hughes, however, was glad to learn that the secretary had been transferred to Warsaw. An illicit liquor scandal threatening to touch the most exclusive and highly connected circles in Washington was recently disclosed. % 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.