FOREIGN LIQUORS.
First Rush Almost Exhausts Quotas. FRENCH IMPASSE CREATED. (Received 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 21. The Government disclosed to-day that the rush of foreign liquors into the United States had brought the majority of import quotas near exhaustion and had at the same time moved the combat domestically to what the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Homer S. Cummings, described as "rather a wholesale plan to violate the internal revenue lawa on liquor." He added that the entire force of 1170 prohibition agents would be employed to prevent bootlegging and other illegal liquor operations. He said also that illicit stills were still in operation and that "depredations were going on." ' It appears that the Portuguese and French quotas are exhausted and that an impasse has been reached in the negotiations with the French, who, having accepted increased quotas for American fruits and pork products, at the same time increased the duties On these items.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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