SINKING OF A LAUNCH
ALLEGED RUM RUNNER BATTLE WITH CUTTER. _____, i i NEW YORK, October 30. At New London (Connecticut) a running battle between a coastguard cutter and the alleged rum runner launch Frances, of Newport, in whi£h machine gun bullets and one-pounder shells were exchanged, reached a spectacular climax to-day, when the Frances, ploughing through her own smoke screen, rammed the patrol boat and sank. The four men comprising the Frances’s crew were taken prisoner, one of whom ,is in a critical condition from gunshot wounds in the abdomen. The coastguard vessel had to be beached with a badly stove bow. The cargo of 500 cases of liquor sank with the Frances.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 7
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