AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. U.S.A. DRY LAW. CHASING SMUGGLERS. WASHINGTON. April 23 A White House spokesman attiioumed President Harding has completed a plan for providing the full use of the naval and military forces to suppress liquor smuggling. Tbe President has requested the Department of Justice to rule whether such forces may lie used to enforce civil prohibition. If the ruling is favourable, it fleet of fast submarine chasers will immediately lie assigned to patrol the coast, with a. military guard ashore to prevent landing. The United States has again asked Britain’s diplomatic support in the suppression of smuggling, suggesting that the United States be informed whenever large liquor cargoes leave Britain, while the United States would reciprocally anpraise Britain of American exports that might illegally he used in British territory.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1923, Page 2
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134AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1923, Page 2
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