RUNNING BATTLE
i GOASfGUARDS AND LAUNCH
SPECTACULAR CLIMAX, RAIMMEDI under, smoke screen 500 CASES OF LIQUOR SINK »United Press .Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; Received T. 45 p.m to-day. NEW YORK, Oct. 3'J. At New London (Connecticut 7 a running battle between a coastgiiarct cutter and an alleged rum runner launch, “Frances,” of Newport, in which machine giin bullets and one pounder shells were exchanged, reached a spectacular climax to-day when the launch, ploughing through Her own smoke screen, rammed the patrol boat and sank.
Four men, comprising the launch crew, were taken prisoners, one of whom is in a critical condition from gunshot wounds in the abdoineh. The coastguard vessel had to be beached with a badly stove bow. A cargo of 500 cases of liquor sank with the “Frances.”
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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130RUNNING BATTLE Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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