RUM FLEET
FORMIDABLE NUMBER. DECKS PILED HIGH. GOVERNMENT SHIPS WATCHING. (Received 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 7. Many Government craft are on watch off the New Jersey coast to prevent the smuggling of liqu'or from the largest rum fleet assembled offshore in a year. The liquor fleet is 42 miles off the coast, slowly moving northward, a 3000-ton steamer leading the procession. Cases of liquor are piled high on the decks. The Government vessels are kept at a distance of a few miles, with the decks cleared for action. A message fiom Plymouth, Massachusetts, states that after a fight on the pier between 30 rum-runners and coast-guardsmen the latter seized liquor valued at 100,000 dollars and took si" men prison or. —Reuter.
EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT. NEVADA FAVOURS MODIFICATION. (Received 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 7. The poll of the Nevada Assembly upon the prohibition resolution which calls upon Cohgress to assemble a convention of States to modify the Eighteenth Amendment shows that it will be approved by a large majority, according to supporters. —Renter.
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Northern Advocate, 9 February 1925, Page 5
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