LIQUOR SMUGGLING

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 10

LIQUOR SMUGGLING

MANY METHODS OF CONVEYANCE MOTORLESS SUBMARINES BEING USED BY telegraph.—press association. COPYRIGHT. New York, November 14. A message from St. Albans, Vermont, states that an undersea rum-running craft, described by the Customs authorities as a submarine without motors, has been seized on Lake Champlain with 4800 bottles of ale. The seizure was made by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the American authorities in Canadian boundary waters. Customs officials pointed out that bootleggers have been using every known method of conveyance to run contraband liquor from Canada to the United States, including automobiles, motor-boats, aeroplanes, and submarines. The latter have been known as nivsterv boats, having a length, of 28 feet wi’tli a device for submerging and rising to the surface, but without propelling mechanism, being towed by 175foot hawsers. Air and vision are obtained bv means of periscopes. The authorities say that these vessels are extremely expensive;.but have successfully conveved so much liquor that thev quickly paid for themselves. The co-operation of the Canadian and American authorities is aloud believed to be responsible for their discovery.