SEIZED SCHOONER

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 12 December 1923, Page 5

SEIZED SCHOONER

THE ZEEHOND CASE

DUTCH PROTEST LODGED.

(UNIIfeD PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPXRIiSHT.) (AD3TKAUAN-KIW ZEALAND CABLB A6SOCIATIOH.I (Received 12th December, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 11th December, ■The Customs officials admit:.thafc.Holland has already lodged'a protest against the seizure of the schooner Zeehond, and especially to the taking of certain important papers aboard the vessel. The officials are very reluctant to discuss the case. -Captain Krana and the! members ; of the crew were arraigned to-day, and formally held, on a charge of conspiring to violate the Volsted Act. Bail was fixed at from 25,000 dollars down to 5000, and the men went to gaol, being unable to provide bonds. Federal officials declare that the Zeehond belongs to an important group of smugglers, the heads of which were today sent to a Federal prison to serve a sentence of two years.; and that the shita was within the three-mile limit When she was apprehended. The Dutch Consul stated that the vessei was outside territorial waters. Dispatches from Washington state that the State Department formally admitted that negotiations with Holland for a treaty' similar to the British are being conducted.