END OF "RUM ROW"
AN OFFICIAL PREDICTION.
INCREASED NUMBER OF SEIZURES.
(BY CARLB —BJHJ33 ISBOCIATtOV —CO7TBIGKT) (BiHUTEE'a TKIJtOaAMS.)
(Received November 13th, 8.30 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, November 12. The end of "Rum Row" is predicted in a Treasury statement.
There xvas a large increaso in the number of seizures (including seven foreign vessels acting as supply Bhips) in Atlantic Coast operations for October.
The report remarks: "It is surprising to note the number of Norwegian vessels engaged in the liquor traffic. Ten were observed recently in the rum fleets off the coast."
THE PACIFIC COAST.
BOOTLEGGERS SMASHED.
CANADIAN CITIZENS ARRESTED
IN CALIFORNIA.
(Sybsei "Sto" Slavics.)
(Received November 14th, 13.20 a.m.)
VANCOUVER, November 12,
America has almost broken up wholesale bootlegging out of Vancouver and Victoria to San Francisco and Loa Angeles. For two years steamers have been leaving with great liquor : cargoes from Vancouver "for South American poris." En route they paused below tho horizon off the Golden and transferred their cargoes to launches bound for the shore, then returned to Vancouver 1 , negleoting to proceed further. The/never called at American ports, and the traffic was legitimate j so far as the Canadian Customs regulations were concerned.
Lately three of their best vessels havo been seised. The Quadra was arrested within, an hour's run of San Francisco, with £IOO,OOO worth of whisky aboard. The crew of the Gauli were so hard pressed that they had to scuttle tho Ship oft San Diego. Two other vessels were also arreetcd, and the bootleggers'Josaee within a month ran to 1,000,000 dollars. The climax came - when the brand Jury in &»« Francisco returned truo bills against 28 lending citizens of Vancouver and Victoria engaged, in thA liquor traffic, and had three of them who were holidaying in California arrested. These throe include a leading lawyer and two millionaire bootleggers. It has since developed that the American Secret Service nad no officer employed as a sailor Aboard tho Quadra, and during all Jiear recent trips every mo Ye was known to tic police, inoludjng the source of _ the money which financed the expeditions, t It is tho biggest coup in tho liquor figfyt history on the Pacific Coast.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18230, 14 November 1924, Page 13
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