NOT TO CARRY LIQUOR

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 172, 9 April 1923, Page 7

NOT TO CARRY LIQUOR

AMERICAN SHIPPING BOARD’S EMBARGO

UPHELD BY DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

By Telegraph.—press association —Copyright. (Rec. April 8, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, April 6.

It is learned that the Department of Justice gave a ruling upholding tho Shipping Board’s clause providing that any United States ships sold to foreigners must not carry liquor even after the registry has been transferred. Thd State Department asked for a ruling to aid in consideration of Canada’s protest. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable [The United States Shipping Board recently found a considerable jiumber of purchasers among Canadians for its smaller vessels. The Anti-saloon League, however, drew the board s attention to the fact that with the transfer of these vessels to. the British registry they entered the liquor smuggling trade. The board therefore wrote a clause into the sales agreement under which the vessels must not engage in practices which were unlawful in the United States. The Canadian Government entered a protest against this. These vessels, if under the American registry, would be subject to search outside the three-mile limit. The Canadian authorities took the ground that if these ships were interfered with outside the three-mile limit now it would be a violation of international law.]

PROHIBITION LEGISLATION COMPENSATION TO STAND IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, April 7. The Minister of Justice (tho Hon. John Ley) refused the request of a Temperance deputation to take steps to eliminate the compensation clause from the proposed prohibition legislation. He added: “If prohibition is a good thing, it is worth paying for. Hotelkeepers are entitled to compensation the same as any others whose businesses are disturbed-” —Press Assn.

LICENSES CANCELLED (Reo. April 8, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, April 8. Mr. Ley states that since the inception of the Licenses Reduction Board it has cancelled 204 hotel and wine bar licenses, and paid compensation amounting to £150,290. —Press Assn.