"WIPED OUT"
SCATTERING OF RUM-ROW
WORK OF THE NEW PICKETS.
(UNITED I'RESS ASSOCIATION'—COPYRIGHT.)
(SYDNEX SON CABLE.) (Received 18th May, 10 a.m.)
NEW YORK, 17th May. ' The newspapers claim that "Kum Row" has been wiped out. Every liquor ship was picketed by two swift patrol boats, armed with one-pounders, and supporting these is a number of Navy destroyers. The pickets hang within a hundred yards of the "bootleggers," who have become so harried that their organisation is disintegrated, and they have scattered in all directions. lii many instances they auctioned their cargoes at a tithe of their value. It is stated ,that only twelve out. of eighty liquor ships are now ] e ft between Nantucket and Atlantic City,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 114, 18 May 1925, Page 5
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