ADVENTURES AT SEA.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1924, Page 4

ADVENTURES AT SEA.

- I KU.M-RUNNINCi TO NORWAY. SYDNEY, An-. M. I .asL week's gale drove into Port Melbourne, :i lieitv sea-worn looking seliooner, with a milch more sea-worn locking individual on hoard, who is rather proud of his adventurous past. Hans Arneson is his name for the time being, but it has not always been his name and it will not always be so, for he hopes some day again to visit Norway, to whiih he is passionately attached. and he could never do so without effectually disguising his identity. Tlte fact is that Norway is a Prohibition eon lit rv bn! Mans Arneson is not

ii Prohibitionist, and In.- openly declares tlial 1m call see iu> moral wrnnjz. however much o[ a leizal one there may he. in supply ill:' tile wauls of those mimleil like hitiis.lf. especially, as lie naively adds, when there is fzood money in return lor the threat ri.-kv involved. For two years llans ran rum and hrandv out of llamhiirg to Prohibition Norway, lie owned a motor launch (>Ofl lony;, which could traced at •jr, knots, lie used to slip up the muds under the very noses ip the ( listen!-, i llicials and police. Then on .' nipjit tame disaster. Ilis laumdi 's •Zone anti two of his crew have served .sis m:utlis’ imprisonment. Ilis laumdi

was one lII' a perfectlv •*l'fisi 11 i">e:l licet. •Sflilon*. wort 1 carpm-s landed in ike seme place twice. l.nrrirs in carry ike I'llil l.ll'ni) ill < IK* ItJil'l, lII' explained, wiiiu- lin nerkans six dill- r-"it places. II ni!-.' place wen* keilin waHked, tilt* smunnlers’ look-out limn on slid re Would sipna! to t!it‘ vessel, jiltd it would slip away to another place. “As inii'-li whisky and Itrandv is takt'it lit Norway as in lormer days, | ;i . said. "I list'd to run iipht down into I lainluirn. Now t lit' (.ermau sclmom rs come up alone the roast ami lie not side t!*i' tlirt'i'-inilr limit. ••Tin' lii'St motor 'mats in Norway ii.m.' out ill uinkt to ill.' sm.ttpytlii’.- ! radars. One man is called tk: ‘Whisky Kim;.’ Ill* is olio ot' t'l. woaltluost nit i in Norway. No own:1 motor 1 a1111(It tkat ran do All knots |lor engines aro Ati'l kot'O-pawor. ‘•Nearly every 11i;X 1 1i ike '• tistom odirors cimsfd ns. Sometimes tliev lie s*'.it, two shots: WO wore gone Titov never saw ike Wily wo went.’ Hans was hrief akoUt his own dis aster. •The ollirers.” lie se.nl. “kei onus mounted on tkeir skip. r k.m only revolvers, one in caeli pocket They not inv skin i'lid my cargo and iny two lex. I kave read i the pr.ner that two ol my former mute low - ke'ii shot, rinminn no ike liord its wo did." Hans remarked tkat lie kail neve 1,0111 in “tire trade" in tke I'mto Stetos. “It is no good lh. ro. ko sail “Tko oin.mi iitioii is no mod. A pro system takos years to knilil. A me lies In ko korn in iko nktei . 1 - liinro I'loliey to In' mini - lkt"‘o ir r n ■ o-.itiuo than rum. hut I "ctildn'h ru oorai're -ii is laid. In two years am noinn la.ek. Tlirv didn’t ml a my money. I ran kny anotker litnn ! htit I don't tkink I'll sningnl' again.