AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 31

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

♦ v ENFORCEMENT CAMPAIGN. EXCITING CHASE ON LAKE ERIE. WASHINGTON, July 1. The Government has begun a supreme effort to enforce prohibition, with a special appropriation of 3,000,000 dollars, for a campaign against organised bootleggers. In this connection 900 new agents have been added to the prohibition force. Mr Lincoln Andrews (prohibition enforcement officer) also has a general appropriation of 11,000,000 dollars this year for carrying out the provisions of the Volstead Act. Mr Andrews intends to go to Europe next week to negotiate anti-smuggling treaties with Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy. Upon his return he will make an inspection of the whole border, and will visit Alaska. /\ fleet of eight small vessels will be placed on Lake Michigan on Saturday for action against the Canadian liquor smugglers. In the meantime *-n international situate has been created by the pursuit bv a United States coastguard cutter of a Cana, dian liquor vessel on Lake Erie. Members of the rum-runner’s crew state that the cutter fired on them foUT and a-half miles on the Canadian side of the border line, but the coastguard men declare that they met the vessel in American waters and did not fire until the craft started away with .4 member of the American cutter’s ci-w who had boarded to investigate. The chase continued for several miles, the Americans firing a dozen rifle shots on the Canadians Both craft were beached in Canadian waters. The rum-runners’s crewcompelled the three remaining Americans to surrender and wade ashore where they were held by the Canadian Customs officers. THE ENFORCEMENT ARMY. WASHINGTON, July l. Prohibition’s largest army of 4000 men was mobilised on Thursday for an extensive campaign against liquor. Twenty-nine miller dollars has been appropriated for the purpose of waging an attack on the land and sea sources of supply.