WAR ON RUM RUNNING.
CANADIAN SCHOONER SUNK. SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS FEARED. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 5, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 4. Another complication with Canada, as the result of American anti-rum running activities is foreseen, due to the ramming and sinking to-day of the schooner Symour, with Aubrey Bachman, of Lunenburg (Novo Scotia), master, by a coast guard cutter off the Nantucket Lightship. The commander of the cutter charged the Symour with smuggling liquor. She had a cargo of 250,000 dollars worth of beverages when she was sunk. Bachman and the crew were rescued, and brought to New London (Connecticut) under the charges.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18844, 6 April 1931, Page 9
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106WAR ON RUM RUNNING. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18844, 6 April 1931, Page 9
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