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Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2313, 20 March 1930, Page 5

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PEACE CONFERENCE. DEADLOCK CONTINUES. USEFUL SPADEWORK DONE. Australian Press Association — United (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. “The Peace Conference deadlock, continues,” said a British spokesman to-day. “We are no nearer solution than on Monday, but useful spadework has been done meantime.” Answering a question he said the parties were still seeking a five-power agreement, 'but the possibility of a three-power agreement had not necessarily been precluded. PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. ONLY ONE ALTERNATIVE. FAVOURABLE TESTIMONIES. WASHINGTON, March 19. Mr Daniels, ex-Secretary of the Navy, testifying in the House re the prohibition hearings, said there was but one alternative to national prohibition and that was the return to the old saloon, “with its heart-breaks and its products—drunkenness and poverty,” He admitted the imperfections in prohibition, but it was preferable to the saloon. He decried light wines and beers as a solution, declaring most antiprohibitionists “wish their drink to have a kick in it. ”

Horace Taft brother of ex-Presi-dent Taft, and head of a noted Boys' School, in testifying, declared his brother while first doubtful of prohibition later found the results “glorious.” Witness said the schools showed the benefit of prohibition.

Under questioning Taft added that Baron Demumm had “belittled” accusations that millions were being spent by foreign liquor dealers to hurt the repeal of prohibition in the United States.