MILITIA CALLED OUT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17244, 10 January 1924, Page 5

MILITIA CALLED OUT.

TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. By Telaerr&ph—Prea* Association—Copyrict t Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK. January 8. A telegram from Marion, Illinois, says that th© continued activities of federal agents, aided bv tlie Ku Klux Klan, in raiding illicit liquor establishments has resulted in a situation so serious that the Government has sent two companies of militia, upon trie sheriff's request, in order to prevent rioting. The agents made fiftv arrests to-day in the so-called “bloody Williamson County,” ’the scene of the Herrin massacre. Already ‘236 persons liar© been arrested, but immediately upon their release on bail they re-opened their establishments, arming themselves (heavily and resisting the enforcement officials. The law officers, during the trial of one offender to-day, brought two machine-guns to the court room for the purpose of withstanding a possible attack for the defendants had armed their adherents itfho surrounded the building. LIQUOR SCANDAL. WASHINGTON, January 8. The Capital’s second liquor scandal within a fortnight resulted from disclosures made to the police, who raided a fashionable apartment, where n group of socially prominent persons and some Government officials were attending a party. The police obtained the names, but, as in the bootleg syndicate scandal just before Christmas, they refused to disclose the identity of the persons involved. and also declined to divulge tha identity of the host. A Treasury intelligence officer stated; —“ We know everybody who was there, and we.will bring justice to everybody concerned.”