MAY BE SEIZED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17183, 29 October 1923, Page 10

MAY BE SEIZED.

FOREIGN SHIPS IN AMERICA. By Telegraph—Pres9 Association—Copyright :Vustralian and N.Z. Cable Association AA ASHINGTON, October 26. The Department of Justice has issued a general warning that foreign ship* bringing liquor into the port of New York will be seized. Renewed violations of the Supreme Court's ruling regarding liquor on ships have been reported, and the departmental agents are investigating instances where foreigr vessels, after leaving New York, opened bars outside the three-mile limit, indicating that they had carried liquor into the port upon the trip from abroad. The announcement of Mr A AY. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, in May last, that only liquor would be seized, will no longer be enforced, the authorities being convinced that the time has come for the seizure of vessels. They cite the instance of the British j forfeiture of a German ship, the Cleo- ! patra. last June, for bringing liquor | into British territorial ■water’s concealed J in bunkers, as a precedent for drastic American action. The Administration was not altogether surprised to hear that Britain was willing to accept the principle of

;i twelve-mile limit within which sels may be searched. Pending receipt of the British plans, however, itie authorities are unable to say whether the stipulations of the United State«= araft treatv have been substantially ac■•opted.