RUM SMUGGLERS
«. RIGHT OF SEIZURE UPHELD
San Francisco, January 4. The United States Circuit Court on Monday upheld the conviction of eight defendants in the steamer Quadra case on a charge of violating the Volstead Act and collateral treaties to prevent rum smuggling. The Quadra w’as owned in British Columbia and seized here, convictions resulting. The decision sustains the right of the Government to seize vessels suspected as rum-runners within twelve miles of the mainland and in effect declares legal and binding the treaties and agreements between Canada and the United States for the suppression of rum smuggling. ; —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 86, 6 January 1926, Page 9
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101RUM SMUGGLERS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 86, 6 January 1926, Page 9
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