THE LIQUOR BAN

Evening Star, Issue 18257, 23 April 1923, Page 7

THE LIQUOR BAN

SMUGGLING PROBLEM. AMERICA'S dilemma. Tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, April 21. Washington correspondents state that Cabinet, "after a long session concerning liquor smuggling on the Atlantic coast, decided that immediate drastic action was needed to end what President Harding regards as the gravest problem. The co\tlnual presence off the New Jersey coast of numerous liquor-laden craft under foreign registry is rendering tho enforcement of Prohibition almost impossible. While it is announced that the Government has no definite plan formulated, it is believed that two lines of action are being studied— namely, either _to make a strong request for the co-operation of other Governments to suppress tho smuggling, or to use the navy to disperse the rumrunning vessels, However, there is considerable opposition to the latter com so, many officials believing that it would result In international complications unfavorable to tho United States.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE CANADIAN MOVEMENT. PROVINCE OF ALBERTA. OTTAWA, April 20. The Special Committee of the Provincial Legislature of Alberta recommended a referential on four questions: 1. Prohibition, 2. The licensed sale of beer. 3. Government sale of beer. 4 Government sale of all liquors. —A. and N.Z. Cable. BRITAIN’S POSITION. WASHINGTON, April 21. The State Department has disclosed that Britain declined to join the United ■States in a mutual search of ships on the high seas, but expressed a desire to cooperate in other ways in curbing illicit liquor traffic, negotiations for which are now under way. —A. and N.Z. Cable.