WHISKY POURED INTO OCEAN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 305, 19 September 1921, Page 5

WHISKY POURED INTO OCEAN

Liquor —good, indifferent, and very, very bad —the value of which, at the rate charged -by illicit dealers, is estimated at 1610,000,000, is about to be spilled into., the Atlantic Ocean by the authorities to. get rid of it (reported’ tho New York correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle" on July 14). It has all keen seized in the process of enforcing the prohibition law. Rubbish barges: laden with the strange’ cargo will be towed far beyond the outer harbour, and the crews, under police supervision, will unite in the mixing of the most stupendous cocktail in history for the delectation of Father Neptune! and Davy Jones. If in the next week or so passing British mariners should note disturbances somewhere in tho Atlantic, and the ozone they breathe should have! a peculiar yet strangely familiar flavour, they will know that it is not because the 108.999,999 inhabitants of this country are’ celebrating tho revocation of tho dry law. About tho time this reservoir of , ardent spirits is being thus disposed of, tho authorities will sell tho containers and vehicles in which it wns seized. At present these nnd the liquor are costing the city hundreds of pounds a day for storage in warehouses, unused buildings, nnd other structures. These containers nnd vehicles range from fountain pens, hollow canes, and bogus cigars to huge casks, and the vehicles from perambulators to motor lorries and a Rolls-Royce, car.