LIQUOR HAUL.
RUM-RUNNER CAPTURED. Received February 24. 12 noon. NEW LONDON (Conn.), Feb. 22. A coastguard steamer made an important capture to-day. They seized the British sloop Isabel H. as she was transferring 24,000 bottles of liquor to the American contact vessel Mohawk.
Both vessels and crews were captured. The liquor haul is valued at 150,000 dollars. The contraband liquor had been shipped from St. Pierre, Miquelon, a French possession.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 2
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70LIQUOR HAUL. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 2
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