GUN BATTLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 290, 8 December 1933, Page 7

GUN BATTLE.

LIQUOR SMUGGLING

PATROLS CAPTURED.

U.S. Inspectors Shot on Mexican

Border

LAW BREAKERS * TRIUMPH. 'United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12 noon.) NEW YORK, December 7. A message from El Paso, Texas, states that three men, including a Government inspector, were killed and another wounded in a gun battle between a United States border patrol and liquor smugglers early to-day. The fight started when inspectors challenged 16 men, who • had waded the Rio Grande with liquor from the Mexican side. On reaching the American shore officers leaped out with drawn j>uns, but a blaze of gunfire met them. This is the second rum battle recently in which border patrolmen have been slain. A Glace Bay (Nova Scotia) message states that four Canadian coast guardsmen were captured to-day by the crew of a suspected rum-running cratt, the Kromhouts, who turned on the guardsmen as the vessel was being towed into port. The coastguard cutter Stumble Inn, had seized the' ship and the captain assigned four seamen to the captured vessel to take her into North Sydney. Striking quickly the Kromhouts crew overpowered their guards, cut loose their ship, which was being towed by the Stumble Inn and raced it out of range of the coastguards' guns.

Government vessels began an iiiunedi ate search.