COASTGUARD BATTLE.
WITH ALLEGED RUM RUNNER. Received October 31, 12.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 30. At New London (Connecticut) a running battle between a coastguard cutter and an alleged rum runner launch, the Frances, of Newport, in which machine-gun bullets and one-pounder shells, were exchanged, reached a spectacular climax to-da.y,. when the Frances, ploughing through her own smoke screen, rammed the patrol boat and sank. Four men, comprising the crew of the Frances, were taken, prisoners, one of whom is in a critical condition from gunshot wounds' in the abdomen. 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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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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113COASTGUARD BATTLE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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