BORDER SMUGGLING
♦ EFFECT OF CANADIAN ACT OPINION AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, 27th March. Tho Canadian Government's enactment of the Liquor .Export Bill, granting the Government authority to refuse •clearance to shipments of liquor, may bring about the discard of border smuggling as an important phase in Prohibition enforcement. This is the opinion of Treasury officials, who state that while about the same Prohibition and Customs forces would be maintained on the border after tho Bill's passage until its actual effect was known, a material reduction in personnel later is anticipated, agents being transferred to other parts of tho country, notably Chicago and New York, while the sea-going coastguard craft now on tho Great Lakes would be Transferred to tho North Atlantic ruin blockade. On the theory that as soon as one Prohibition problem is solved another springs up in its place, the officials anticipate that the Candian rum smugglers will transfer their activities to the North Atlantic, with headquarters at St. Pierre, Miquelon, and the Bahamas, since Candian liquor could be cleared legally to those places and reshipped to the United States.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 11
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181BORDER SMUGGLING Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 11
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