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OF BEVERAGE LIQUOR. j i PROM THREE-MILE AEEA. r i 1 DIFFICULTIES AHEAD. } " J (Received 9.5 a.m.) 1 1 WASHINGTON, May 2. Following upon a conference witH officials, Mr Andrew Mellon, Treasury Secretary, issued a statement fixing Junfe 10 as the date after which, no vessels, foreign or domestic, ■will be permitted to bring beverage liquor within American territorial waters, although, medicinal liquors will not be molested. Mr Mellon admitted that such enforcement would! be a delicate matter, saying that the regulation under the Daugherty decision,, affecting as it doe® the rights of Governments under international treaties as well as rights of American citizens, wool a require extraordinary care. A NEW COMMENTATOR. LONDON, May 2. Mr Lloyd George, in his seventeenth article;, discusses prohibition, contrasting Britain's difficulties on the subject with those of America. —A. and N.Z. The Supreme Court at Washington, upheld' the Daugherty ruling under the Prohibition Amendment that foreign ships cannot bring liquor within the three-mile limit, even as sea thus upsetting the Federal Court injunctions. The Court simultaneously upheld the appeal against the Daug- ' herty ruling banning liquor on Ameri- : can ships throughout the world, ruling ' that there was nothing in the Prohibition Amendment that prevents Arner- ' cen ships, carying liquor in foreign. ; waters. The Supreme Court decisions i were made on appeal from the Lower Court decisions, in the first instance by ;Mr H. M. Daugherty, 1 eral, and' in the second instance by the . American shipping companies. The Court's ruling is based on the decision ' that the Prohibition Amendment is . only applicable; to physical territory I under the' United States' sovereign j control' Foreign and American shipJ ping are thus placed on an .equal footling, neither being alio wot to bring liquor within the tjiree-mile, limit, put jfiotfi are able to e&riy it oots£de. ? ■ , ■ ■ ...■ ' •