RUM-RUNNER SUNK
Running Engagement With Coastguard Cutter SPECTACULAR CLIMAX New York, October 30. A message from New London, Connecticut, suites that a running battle took place between a coastguard cutter and an alleged rum-runner, the launch Frances, of Newport. In the fra; machine-gun bullets and oue-poundei shells were exchanged. The battle reached a spectacular climax to-day when the Frances, ploughing through her own smoke screen, was rammed by a patrol-bout and sank. Four men, comprising the Frances’s crew, were taken prisoner. One is in a critical condition with gunshot wounds in the abdomen. The coastguard vessel had to be beached with a badly stoved-in bow. A cargo of 500 cases of liquor sank with the Frances.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 9
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116RUM-RUNNER SUNK Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 9
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