SEIZURE OF WHISKY

Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 6

SEIZURE OF WHISKY

ILLEGAL AMERICAN ACTION LIQUOR TO BE RETURNED. SAX FRANCISCO, July 4. The teetotal United States- Government may shortly be a buyer for some 210,000 hollies of Scotch whisky. The court has held that oyor-zcalous coastguards improperly seized tho steamer Coal Harbour two years ago. ami has awarded the ship and cargo, altogether valued at .CIoU.OOO, back to the Vancouver owners, thu Consolidated Inn nor Company, and given them permission to claim, through the Canadian Government. for damages lor wrongful seizure. The facts showed that the slop was captured more than twenty mucs off the shore. The 10,00(1 cases of S (: ,seized with the vessel, are fondly supposed to he held in tho Customhouse here. There are many rumours, however, that it has long "since disappeared, or that tho bottles are now Idled with water. The liquor returned must be of the same qaalitv as when it was seized. If it is not there, the Government will have to go into the open market and bnv. Kinallv the liquor will he recratcd and .shipped" hark In Scotland, whence it came In Glasgow the owners^ may once more regain pos'-e.-Hon of tins interesting cargo.