RUM-RUNNERS’ TRICK
FALSE DISTRESS SIGNALS. The false S.O.S. sent out by rumbrokers from Hoboken, to get the coastguard out of the way while a run of liquor was in progress lately, had the effect of sending a dozen American destroyers and many motor-boats scurrying fruitlessly, through the fog off Barmegat, about 60 miles down the coast. „ ‘ No sign was found of the "small foreign freighter” which reported she was sinking, but ga've no name or details. ' Becoming suspicious, the coastguard officers checked the bearings given by the two ships which picked up the S.O.S. and they showed the real origin of the message to be Hoboken, the oasis of rumrunners and beer-lovers, where saloons are run “ wide open ” as in pre-prohibi-tion days. This is believed to be the first occasion that rum-runners have outraged the code of the sea by sending out fake distress signals.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21358, 11 June 1931, Page 5
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