RUM SMUGGLING.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17939, 6 December 1923, Page 8

RUM SMUGGLING.

FIGURES FROM AMERICA. GREAT CRIMINAL PROBLEM. (»Y CABLS —PRESS A.BBOCIATIOK—-COrTIUGBT.) (AU3TEJU.IAN AKD N.Z. CA.BLB ASSOCIATION.) (Beceived December sth, 9.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 4. The annual report of the AttorneyGeneral (Mr H. M. Daugherty) states that the liquor smuggling busines is the greatest criminal problem which the United States has ever faced. From Scotland alone, 150,000 gallons of whisky were illegally imported into the United States within one period of seven weeks during 1923. The Bahamas sent 1,300,000 gallons into tho United States in the past 12 months.

Eighteen vessels of foreign registry engaged in rum-running were seized in the last fiscal year.

Mr Daugherty concludes with a summary of the difficulties of enforcing the laws of the United States on the great southern and northern boundaries and on the sea coast. COMBATIVE MEASURES. WORKING IN WITH CANADA. (BT CAJUJS—FBKSS AgSOCTATIOW COFTKOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AKD ST.Z. CASH ABSOCIATION.; WASHINGTON, December 8. Administrative arrangements be> tweea the United States and the Canadian Governments will b© made efiective in a reasonable time to permit the interchange between them of a formula for the clearance of vessels carrying liquor from Canada, and of those smuggling liquor, narcotics, 6ilks, and other merchandise from one country to the other.