STREAMS OF LIQUOR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 12

STREAMS OF LIQUOR.

BORDER SMUGGLING. CANADA AND U.S.A. OTTAAVA, Juno 9. General Lincoln C. Andrews, Director of Prohibition Enforcement, has arrived from AVashington for the purpose of negotiating a. liquor treaty between tho United States and Canada. The American "Dry Czar” wishes an international arrangement whereby tho export of 10,000 million dollars (£2,000,000) worth of Canadian liquor into tho United States will bo stopped. Tremendous streams of whisky and gin leave Canada every month, billed for Mexico, but never reach their destination, as the shipments are sold en route to Amerioran coastal cities. As far as Canadian laws are concerned, the shipments are legal, but the Canadian Government realises that the whole thing is camouflage, and, therefore, is likely to meet General Andrews’s proposals if America will at the same time effectually dam the flood of goods, chiefly cloth and silks, worth £10,009,000 a year, which aro smuggled across the border into Canada with -American connivance.