MODERN SMUGGLERS
CLASH WITH COASTGUARD
GUNFIRE AND GAS IN U.S.A.
NEW YOBK/Sth September.
All the scientific refinements of modern warfare were employed to-day in a spectacular clash between coastguards and rum-runners off Gloucester. One rum-runner was shot to death and one guardsman was felled by poison gas. Four-alleged rum-runners were arrested.
The high-powered rum-boat Lassghen was fired upon by a coastguard cutter, and the former immediately laid down a smoke-screen and a poison-gas barrage. .
Machine-gun fire was then directed into the runner's hull by.the cutter, and when capture seemed imminent upon the Lassghen's disablement, the crew unsuccessfully attempted to burn her to prevent seizure of the cargo of 400 cases of liquor.
Efforts by the coastguard at Kingston, Massachusetts, to recover several boat-loads of liquor which rum-runners had dumped into the Jones River flats resulted in volleys of gunfire from ambushed rum-runners. The coastguards dived into the river and escaped uninjured. : '■'
Later they recovered 290 cases of liquor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 59, 7 September 1931, Page 7
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