22 JUNE 1929, Page 16

PRORD:UTION ENFORCEMENT

From President Hoover's Press Conferences comparatively few direct quotations emerge, and when the President therefore this week undertook to " deplore " the shootings which have taken place recently on the Canadian border, arising out of efforts to smuggle liquor, he only expressed the alarm of the general public at the increasing violence to which enforcement of the liquor laws is leading. Meanwhile Citizen's Committees along the border are appealing to the Government in their "utter helplessness, terror, and distraction." The situation is developing into a mild guerrilla warfare. The problem is almost without precedent in American life, and is baffling beyond measure to conscientious Government servants.