RUM-RUNNING.
TROUBLE IN U.S. ARMY AND NAVY. NEED FOR VIGILANCE. d By Cable-—Press . Association—Copyright. (Received 1 a.m./ January 20.) NEW YORK, Jan. 19. According to a Trenton (New Jersey) despatch, the Anti-Saloon League passed a resolution, urging that the Army and Navy should be utilised to establish a blockade to prevent rum-running and liquor smuggling l ! This step is considered necessary in order to check the flow of, intoxicants into the United States. The navy would be used to-check liquor smuggling along the coast ; where, beyond . the three mile .limit, 24 vessel* loaded with European stocks wer® making for small boats to unload their, wares surreptitiously. The Army would be used on the Mexican and. the Canadian borders.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18031, 20 January 1923, Page 9
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