OUTRANKS PIRACY.
WOMAN ON RUM RUNNING. By Telegraph - Press Association—Copyright Sydney Sun " Cable, i (Received November 7. 12.40 p.m.) WAS HIN GT(»N . N<wein be r 0. Mrs Mabel Willebramlt. Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, in ho*- annual report, save that- rum- ! running outranks piracy of all criminal offences. America is also facing on the high seas one of the !
greatest problems in the enforcement of the Federal liquor law. Trade statistics from Scotland and the Bahamas showing the. amount of liquor trickling through the sea gates of America demonstrate that the coasti guard regulations are wholly inadei quate to stop the traffic. The <juan- ! tity of liquor annually smuggled into } America cannot even he approximated. 1 SEIZURE OF SCHOONER. Bv Telrgraph—Pres* Association— Topyrigns Australian and N.Z. Cable AwiooWtion. j (Received November 7, 12.15 p.m.) . . NEW YORK, November 6. j It is claimed by the prohibition en- | forcement officers that the seizure of : the liquor-laden British schooner, Louise F, was made within the three . : mile limit and not the twelve mile , • limit. It is claimed that she was , j taken one mile from the shore. 7 ! ~ • • •
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 9 (Supplement)
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186OUTRANKS PIRACY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 9 (Supplement)
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