U.S.A. COASTGUARDS.
Shots Fired At* Norwegian Fruit
Ship.
ATTACK ON PEACEFUL VESSEL.
(Australian ami X.Z. Tress Association.) WASHINGTON*, April 7. The President, Mr. Herbert Hoover, is expected to investigate this week the activities of the coastguard and its methods of enforcing prohibition. The Norwegian Legation awaits on official report regarding shot alleged to have been fired by coastguard agents upon a Norwegian fruit vessel, the Juan, in Chesapeake Bay on Friday before they boarded the ship. The officials discovered nothing but a cargo of bananas. The Norwegian Consul at Baltimore, Maryland, has forwarded a Note to Washington alleging that the coastguard made an unnecessary attack on a peaceful vessel. The ship's pilot says a coastguard cutter lired >ix times, barely missing the Juan, and that the cutter made no attempt to u>o wireless, with which both ships were equipped.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 83, 9 April 1929, Page 7
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