LIQUOR SMUGGLING

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 23, 22 August 1928, Page 6

LIQUOR SMUGGLING

' U.S. CUSTOMS OFFICERS. -CHARGED. NEW YORK, Ini an effort to stem the tide of foreign liquor which, it is alleged, literally pours into-New York from incoming shjips, eighteen Customs officers of the port have been" "suspended on a charge of collusion in smuggling, and an investigation has been opened which, it is predicted, will lead! to the greatest "shake-up" in the United States Customs service. 1 It is'neither charged nor believed that officers of liners; are involved, but other persons aboard big vessels, holding relatively unimportant positions, are suspected of arranging with Customs guards here to permit the landing of liquor at 4Qs per case. The investigation follows a statement in Congress by Representative Laguardia (New York) that millions of dollars-worth of liquor are being run" ashore. Weekly- . Within recent months seizures of liquor- have been made on several trans-atlantic liners of various nationalities. The activities of the police o? the Marine Division of the Customs are, said to prevent the despatch of contraband goods from liners in small launches, and the more recent system has been! to load the cases into, trucks at the ship's side.