ILLICIT LIQUOR

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 31 December 1926, Page 5

ILLICIT LIQUOR

LARGE SEIZURE AT MONTREAL. LEADERS OF RING ARRESTED (Per Press Association—Copyright). OTTAWA, Dee. 30. The first fruits of the four months co-operation between the Canadian and United States authorities were gathered at Montreal to-day with the arrest of five men and the seizure of narcotics valued at ten thousand dollars, and the uncovering of the operations of the largest drug ring in North America. F. W. Cowan, chief of the narcotic branch of the Canadian Department of- Health, said that the investigators secured the confidence of the ring by representing themselves as United States buyers. The drugs apparently entered the Dominion by the Atlantic seaboard, rum-runners playing a considerable part. A central plant is believed to exist, but has not yet been uncovered. The recent seizures at Chicago, Detroit, and Windsor (Ontario) all emanated from Montreal, which Mr Cowan said had been the base of half the trade of the Continent for many years.