RUM-RUNNERS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 7

RUM-RUNNERS

TO BE SEIZED IF CAUGHT WITHIN 12-MILE LIMIT RATIFICATION OF TREATY ANTICIPATED By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Rec. November 27, 11.40 p.m.) New York, November 26. The New York “Tribune’s” Washington correspondent says Mr. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury) stated: “It is known that rum-runners will be seized if caught within the twelveniile cruising range off shore hereafter, despite the fact that the treaty with Britain has not even been submitted to the Senate, much less ratified. Mr. Mellon feels that several daring individuals are fiauntingly setting the authority and sovereignty of the United States at naught by openly running with liquor to the United States. Moreover, be feels that no contravention ot national law is occurring, especially in the case of the .Tomako, where the vessel was actually in touch with the shore, and already had been unloading her cargo of I'l nor mto boats, intending to land it. The treasury Department does not expect Britain to protest in the circumstances. Revenue cutters have been given a specific direction to look for certain runners, and these will be pursued outside the three-mile limit. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SEIZURE OF THE TOMAKO VESSEL MAY BE RELEASED (Rec. November 27, 10.15 p.m.) Washington, November 26. It tg an nounced that the rum smuggling schooner Tomako was seized under The new agreement between the United States and Great Britain extending the limit. . In ordering the Tomako to be, seized there arc indications that the position of the Treasury will not be supported by the State Department, and the ship may be released, unless the seizure is justified on other grounds. In the opinion of the British Embassy, the provisions of the Treaty could not be considered to be in force until the Treaty is signed. —Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. AGREEMENT WITH CANADA SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT CLEARANCE OF LIQUOR SHIPS (Rcc. November 27. 10.15 p.m.) Washington. November 26. At an American-Canadian conference on liquor smuggling on Tuesday at Ottawa, tho United States Government will propose that the clearance of ships for the United States with liquor cargoes be prohibited by Canada, tliat search and seizure of vessels engaged in smuggling on the Great Lakes be authorised, and that a treaty arrangement be made for the extradition of persons accused of violating the liquor laws. . Although agreement is. not yet in treaty form. Treasury officials said they regarded the principles involved as accepted by the two Governments, and the revenue cutter service is being proceeded with on that basis. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. “LIQUID DEATH’’ BOOTLEGGER WHISKY (Reo. November 27, 10.15 p.m.) Chicago, November 26. Tho Philadelphia police and Health officials are alarmed by the week-end deaths from bad liquor and _A_njnnber of intoxications, both of which were greater than last week. ' At present tho reports are still incomplete, but thev indicate that there were eight cases of death, a hundred were confined to hospitals, and five hundred were arrested. The police learned that a largo consignment of adulterated' liquor was sent to Philadelphia by various runners for the holiday season. This is believed to be the cause of the unprecedented situation. The police Jiave issued a warning declaring that these eight deaths should be a lesson to all patrons of the bootlegger tliat his whisky is liquid death. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.