CANADIAN SCHOONER SUNK.
ALLEGED RUM-RUNNER. AMERICAN CUTTER'S ACTION. CAPTAIN AND CREW SAVED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received April 5, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. April 4. It is expected that another complication with Canada will result from America's anji-rum-running activities owing to the ramming and sinking to-day of the schooner Symour, of which Captain Aubrey Bachman, of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, was the master-. The vessel was sunk by a coastguard cutler off Nantucket lightship. The commander of the cutter alleges that the Symour was smuggling liquor. lie says she lmd a cargo of £50,000 wforth of beverages on board when she was sunk. Captain Bachman and his crew were rescued and taken to New London, Connecticut, under arrest.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20840, 6 April 1931, Page 9
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116CANADIAN SCHOONER SUNK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20840, 6 April 1931, Page 9
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