RUSH OF LIQUOR
DEMAND IN AMERICA DEALING WITH BOOTLEGGING (United Press Asspciation—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON, 21st December. The Government disclosed to-day that the rush of foreign liquors into the United States had brought the majority of import quotas near exhaustion and tlie same time moved to combat domestically what the Attorney-General, Mr Cummings, described as a “rather wholesale plan to violate the internal revenue laws on liquor.” Mr Cummings said that the entire force ol 1170 Prohibition agents would be employed to prevent bootleg and other illegal liquor operations. He said that illicit stills were still in operation, and that “depredations going on” concerning the foreign liquor quotas indicated that- tlie Portuguese and French quoins were exhausted. An impasse had been reached in negotiations with the French, who, having accepted increased quotas for American fruits and pork products at the same time bad increased tlie duties on these items.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 December 1933, Page 7
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