LIQUOR SMUGGLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 52, 10 December 1932, Page 5

LIQUOR SMUGGLING.

THE SEIZURE OF VESSELS.

OBJECTION BY CANADA. (United Press Associairon—• Copyright) WASHINGTON, December 8. A warning that co-operation with the United States against smuggling would become virtually impossible if the latter continues the 12-mile limit seizure under the tariff law, has been served on the United States by Canada. The Canadian Minister to the United States (Mr W. D. Herridge) told the State Department that Canada refused to recognise the right of the United States to make iseizures of suspected rum-runndrs outside the three-mile limit, except under treaty between the two countries permitting seizure within an hour's sailing of the shore. Unless the United States accepts this position, Mr Herridge said, any other course would tend to frustrate the cooperation rendered by his Majesty's Government in Canada, which had provided effective assistance to the United States Government in curtailing, and in so far as Canadian vessels were concerned almost eliminating, contraband traffic on the coasts of the United States.

Mr Herridge protested against the seizure of the Canadian vessel Mazel Toy Hi miles off the Massachusetts coast. The seizure was upheld in the lower Federal courts under the Tariff Act, 1930, and is now before the Supreme Court.

SEARCHERS ANNOY CANADA.

A REVERSAL OF POLICY

OTTAWA, December .8

The protest to Washington against the seizure of Canadian liquor ships is stated unofficially to be the prelude to a complete reversal of the Government attitude toward United States Prohibition .

It is reported that the Canadian ban on liquor export is about to be lifted. The Government has declared that it is tired of the constant shipping complications caused through the liquor searchers of the United States.