SUBMARINE ENGAGED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 March 1925, Page 5

SUBMARINE ENGAGED.

4 •' IN RUM RUNNING TRADE. LANDS 3000 CASES A NIGHT. Like an echo of the World War, a submarine again looms as a menace to the eastern seaboard. Following a running machine-gun battle at sea recently between coast guard officers and rum-runners it has been reported / that a submarine maned by a German crew, has been for the last ten weeks bringing in as many as 3000 cases of liquor a night. Most of the operations have been along the Jersey coast between Bar- , negat and Atlantic City, ‘and according to reports, the undersea boat woi'ks in conjunction with a. mother ship which is between fifty and a hnuclrea miles out at sea. , The mother- ship, a tramp steamer, presumably, has a cargo of about 75.0i1) cases, and the plan of operation is for the submarine to load and proceed "forward, submerging whenever a suspicious appearing craft comes into sight. It comes to the surface about three miles off shore, and small boats transport the cargo- ashore. The machine-gim fight occurred off Sandy Hook, when a small craft was seen slipping past the coast guard patrol. After several commands to halt and several warning shots, the machineguns were brought into play and seveial rounds were firedThe captured craft, ’containing forty leases of illegal liquor, was brought to I the Barge office, leaking from holes I torn in its sides by machine-gun j bullets. I Gunner Moore, of the patrol, related that when Captain Killbride ordered the speedboat to heave to he received no response and commanded Moore to send a- shot over the bow. Moore fired three times before the boat halted. One of the two occupants had been wounded and Moore took the two prisoners ashore to the army hospital. The physicians after treating the wounded man refused to keep him overnight, Moore said: So Moore permitted the umvounded prisoner to telephone to another hospital for an antomoblie. Soon the car arrived and Moore and his two prisoners, were driven away. “Somewhere along the road the unwounded prisoner "became dreadfully concerned about his friend,” Moore said. “He ordered the chauffeur to stop at the crossroads and there . six men leaped out of another car and attacked me. They took my weapon and hit me over the head with, a blackjack. I fell in a heap, pretending I was dead. They threw me into the snow and hurried awav.”