ILLICIT LIQUOR
HEADQUARTERS AT ANTWERP AUDACIOUS TRAFFICKING. CUSTOMS OFFICERS HOODWINKED (Received 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, February 16. The Antwerp correspondent of, the "Daily News” discloses that Antwerp has become the European headquarters of rum-runners. Many so-called respectable English business men are engaged in bootlegging.
One impudent group bribed a negro captain to take a 120-ton sailer, carrying 70 tons of whisky, and after waiting outside New York innocently joined the returning fishing fleet. The vessel berthed at the quayside and unloaded under the eyes of the unsuspecting Customs officials.—Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 17 February 1926, Page 5
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