LIQUOR FOR AMERICA.
YEAR'S LARGE SHIPMENTS. SMUGGLERS EVADE LAW. MARYLAND SEEKS REPEAL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 6.15 p.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Liquor smupering has increased greatlr in recent' months. The rum fleets operat ing on the American coast number 158 vessels. The Urn 1 . States coast-guards announce that the liquor sent from Scotland alone in the past three months is estimated at 415.703 gallons of bulk, and 26,755 cases. The shipments of "whisky from Europe since January, 1922, amounted to 104,241 cases, and 415,965 gallons of bulk. The coast-guards estimate that they are able to intercept only 5 per cent, of the illicit traffic.
In the Annapolis (Maryland) Legislature the Lower House adopted a resolution calling on Congress to repeal the Volstead law, thus evincing open hostility, which is the outgrowth of earlier efforts merely to reform and liberalise the Volstead law.
Maryland has been consistently the most bitter opponent of prohibition. The resolution will be sent to Congress and to the President for consideration.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18641, 23 February 1924, Page 9
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