RUM-RUNNING.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20420, 15 December 1931, Page 11

RUM-RUNNING.

« —: ENQUIRY INTO DISASTER. BRITISH SURVIVOR ARRESTED. (UNITED I'Rf.SS ASSOCIATION'—BV ELECTRIC T-EIEGItAPH—C'OrYKIQHT.) t LONDON, December. 13. Tho wife of "Walter Denis Savage, the surviving first.officer of tho Venus, had not received any official intimation of tho disaster when interviewed at her Tliames-sidc house in the heart of dockland. She stated slio had been unable to cat or sleep owing to tho shock. She expressed thankfulness at the safety of her husband, whom she expected home at Christmas. "This is his third shipwreck in six years," she said. ''The first was between Antwerp a'Hl London, the second in a collision which sank a Continental freighter in t-lie River Scheldt, resulting in his being laid lip for two months with pleurisy, without compensation. It cannot go on—he must .leave tho sea. "He would not have shipped this time, but he had been out of work jo? > nine months, and hated drawing the dole. I do not understand this rumrunning story." . Both the Savages come of seataring stock. The wife has an uncle who 13 a lieutenant-commander, and two uncles, a brother-in-law, and six nephews who arc master mariners. The husband enlisted in the Second butfolks at the age of 16, and was hounded at Flanders. An Oslo message states that the .sheriff, consequent on the statement mado bv Mr Savage, who was too prostrated to identify his dead shipmates, arrested him. The British Consular aaent will attend tho inquest on tlie victims on Monday. Diving or salvaging will ascertain tho exact cause of the disaster, wined is not believed to have been due to the three warning and 15 direct shots which the cutter fired at the Venus, hut to striking two rocks in succei ion in a terifie gale. , Many barrels of liquor are afloat an the scene of the wreck.