NOT A DROP TO DRINK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1930, Page 7

NOT A DROP TO DRINK.

MONOTONY OF RUM-RUNNING. . —~ I LONDON, March 21. The trials and tortures of Tantalus hardly outmatched those to which the crew of the Norwegian rum-runner Vesla had to submit. Two young Finns and an Australian, who have been for the past six months on the vessel operating off the United States seaboard, were ' unable to land because .she . loaded whisky at sea off Newfoundland and discharged her cargo, still at sea, off* Carolina. _ At last the ship had to return to" Europe to enter the dry'dock.' . , They told the "Sydney Sun" that rum•■running was the dullest kind of, seafaring. They never saw land and there were no risks or dangers. Whenever they saw the patrols they simply steamed Well outside the limit. . The vessel was hove-to each night and discharged into fast motor boats, which came out from {he shore. : . . < The greatest discomfort was the enforced strict 'abstention. Though the ship was full:of whisky the crew were linable to get a drop. It was too valuable to give them any, and it was impossible | to land and buy some. .