LIQUOR ON SHIPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18874, 29 May 1923, Page 7

LIQUOR ON SHIPS

PROTEST BY SPAIN. AMERICA’S RULING RESENTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, May 27. ' The Spanish Royal Mail Line, trading between Barcelona and New York, has discontinued all the American sailings as a protest against the United States dry ruling.—Reuter. UNITED STATES TREASURY. ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE CONFLICTING INTERESTS. WASHINGTON, May 28. (Received May 28, at 10.0 p.m.) The United States Treasury officials who enforce the prohibition will attempt to reconcile the ship ruling with the contentions of the five Powers. The Government intends to temper the strictures of the Supreme Court’s .constructions in the interests of the comity of nations. The Treasury is willing to construe the ruling as liberally as possible, yet legally and safely. It is understood that an attempt may be made to safeguard the interests of* those nations whose laws provide for alcoholic beverages as a ship's crew’s rations, by permitting such under the heading of medicinal stores. The matter is so complicated that a regulation which the Treasury hoped to promulgate on Juno* 10 may be delayed a considerable time longer.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Tire British Embassy officially communicated to ' the State Department Britain’s position regarding the ships and liquor question, which, it is understood, is based on the contentiifu that American port authorities have no jurisdiction In international law over liquor brought into American waters as part of the regu lar supplies of foreign ships. France, Spain, Italy, and Holland have formally protested to the State Department against the Supreme Court’s snips liquor ruling.