PROHIBITION AT SEA.
BRITISH LINES TO COMPLY.
LIQUOR TO BE JETTISONED.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Recti. 4.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 18. Sir Ashley Sparkes, general director of the .Cunard Line, announced to-day that the Cunard and Anchor lines will follow the United States Supreme Court's prohibition ruling to the letter. The company's liners west-bound will only carry liquor as far as the three-mile limit and will there throw overboard what remains. Eastward-bound vessels will carry no liquor. Sir Ashley' declared that the recent London shipping conference was of opinion that the United States' decision was an infringement of the liberties of other peoples, and expressed the hope that the two Governments would get' together so as to arrive at a decision to modify the Volstead Act so far as foreign ships are concerned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18404, 21 May 1923, Page 7
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