LIQUOR ON SHIPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1923, Page 3

LIQUOR ON SHIPS

DUTCH SCHOONER SEIZED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) NEW YORK, December 8. Further international complications are expected as tne result oi tne revenue cutters seizure of the Dutch 105 tons schooner Zeehond, outside ths three mile limit here, carrying a cargo of choicest champagnes and liquors, valued at three hundred thousand, dollars. The Zeehond now lies alongside the Tamoka. Captain H. Kraus and the crew of nine, after the- hearing, were paroled in the Dutch Consul’s custody lor further examination. Krans insisted vehemently tiiat the vessel belongs to an Amsterdam syndicate, and was bound from Antwerp to Halifax. it was becalmed and the tides bore her shoreward. 4 Revenue agents declare that thcf schooner’s log shows she was hoveling offshore for more than a week, the Zeehond being a regular participant in the rum-running industry, and the champagne cargo was intended for the special Holiday trade. Krans insists that his Government will protect him. This is the first seizure of a Dutch ship carrying liquor. Intimations from Washington state that the United States probably seized the Zeehond in accordance with an understanding with the Dutch Government, with which she is negotiating a siiip seizure treaty similar to the British. \ The correspondent indicates that the British-American Treaty can be taken for granted as virtually complete, or the United States would not have started negotiations with Holland; It is understood that the British 1 Treaty will be a standard for similar treaties with other Powers.

MOURNERS SEARCHED. NEW YORK, October 18. A new horror was added, yesterday to the many evils attending the enforce ment of prohibition. As a funeral procession with the body of James Fuller, of Weehawken. New Jersey, was passing through the town of Milford, Conn., on its way to Litchfield Cemetery, it was stopped by James Maher, Chief of Police. Maher, who' had received information that the funeral was a mock one, insisted on the coffin being removed from the hearse. This was done in spite of the agonised protests of the widow, who tainted as the police seized the coffin and began a drastic search among the wreaths for concealed liquor. . . All the mourners underwent a rigid physical examination on the supposition that they were unlawfully transporting whisky. Their motor-cars were also ransacked. Not until they had proved their innocence was the corttge allowed to proceed with ‘'apologies” from the Chief of Police.