SMUGGLING OF LIQUOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19209, 24 December 1925, Page 11

SMUGGLING OF LIQUOR.

PROFITS TO BOOTLEGGERS. AMERICAN BORDER TRADE. COMPLAINTS BY CANADIANS. CONTRABAND BACK CARGOES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 8.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. TORONTO, Dec. 22. Canadian business men, composing the newly-formed Commercial Protective Association, contend that- the United States prohibition law is causing an almost complete disorganisation of Canadian trade. The busy bootleggers, after smuggling a load of liquor into the United States, reload their automobiles with silks, jewellery, radio parts, cosmetics, high-grade cigarettes and other similar compact commodities for the return journey. It. is claimed that £10,000,030 worth of merchandise is smuggled into Canada every year by the. Root loggers' Association. it, is proposed to form a vigilance force to co-operate with the Canadian customs officials, who are legally entitled to carry out their functions only during the day, until Parliament authorises the establishment of a full-night and daytime armed border patrol association; Smuggling, it is stated, is steadily increasing, largely because of the impossibility of controlling the movements of individuals on thousands of autorao|>iie roads along 3000 miles of the frontier. It is asserted that the United States prohibition law has created a type o[ criminal who finds it highly profitable to run liquor one way and contraband goods the other way.