LIQOUR SMUGGLING.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1924, Page 5

LIQOUR SMUGGLING.

BRITISH VESSEL SEIZED. OUTSIDE THREE-MILE LIMIT. PROTEST TO WASHINGTON. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 4, 8.5 p.m. New York, Jan. 3. The Washington correspondent of the United Press Association learns that Britain has made formal representations against the United States’ seizure of the British steamer Tomako, with a cargo of liquor, outside the three mile limit. The correspondent undersz&nda that Mr. Henry Chilton, the British Charge d’Affaires, has presented a note. When the authorities seized the Tcmako in November, Mr. A. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury) and President Coolidge made a statement supporting the seizure on the ground that her al kged British registry was defective, thus supposedly justifying the seizure without the three mile limit, whereupon Britain began an investigation. It is understood that to-day’s British note confirms the validity of the Tomako’s registry, and asks what action the United States will take to release the Tomako. At the time of the seizure, President Coolidge asserted that the case came within the scope of the decision of,October, 1922. which upheld the seizure of the British schooner Henry Marehall, captured nine miles off the New Jersey coast, while unloading liquor into boats plying to the shore. Britain then first protested, but withdrew her protest upon proof of the defective registry of the vessel. The President’s explanation was elicited when a cor-r<-pendent pointed out that considerable fear was felt that the Tomako case might produce serious ill-feeling between Britain and the United States. ENFORCING PROHIBITION. STRICTER STEPS URGED. Received Jan. 4, 9 p.m. Washington, Jan. 3. The activity of the advocates of prohibition to secure stricter enforcement unabated. Representative Upshaw °has introduced a resolution listing a large number of means whereby the Volstead law could be upheld, including the use of the army and navy. He aho asked President Coolidge to exact a pledge of abstinence from Government officials and Cabinet officers, and foreign Governments should be requested not to send diplomatic representatives here who drink ostentatiously. Representative Blanton has introduced a Bill rescinding the* liquqr privileges of foreign embassies.