PROHIBITION.
THE RUM-RUNNING INDUSTRY. INADEQUATE REGULATIONS. Preaa Association—By x'elcgraph—Ccpyrig’af WASHINGTON, November 6. Mrs Willebrandt, Assistant Attorneygeneral of the United States, in her annual, report, says; “ Rum-running outranKS'' piracy and all other criminal offences* America is facing on the high seas one of the greatest problems in the enforce--ment of the Federal liquor law. Trad* . statistics from Scotland and the Bahamas show that the amount of liquor trickling through the sea gates of America demonstrates that the coastguard regulations are. wholly inadequate to stop the traffic. . The quantity of liquor annually smuggled into America cannot even be approximated. ’— Sydney Sun Cable. CAPTURED BRITISH SCHOONER- ’ 1 NEW YORK, November 0. It is claimed by the prohibition enforcement officers that the seizure of the liquor-laden British schooner (Louise F.) was made within the three-mile limit, md not within the 12-mile limit. She was taken when one mile from the shore.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19013, 8 November 1923, Page 7
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150PROHIBITION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19013, 8 November 1923, Page 7
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