WHISKY CARGO SEIZED.
PROHIBITED AREA ENTERED.
The British auxiliary schooner Bertha A, carrying a cargo of 116,000 quarts of whisky, valued at £120,000, when lying at anchor off Highland Light on the American Coast, was rammed in a fog by the British steamer Sheaf Field. The Bertha A was damaged considerably and was forced to go within the three-mile limit for repairs. Federal agents boarded her from a cutter patrol, and immediately " arrested " her and confiscated the wbolo of her cargo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18050, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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81WHISKY CARGO SEIZED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18050, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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