LIQUOR SMUGGLING
TDK CANADIAN BORDER
ILK. "I’ATROL MEN CHARGED
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1
Simultaneously with intimations that the United States had approached Canada for a revision of the AntiSmuggling Treaty of 1924 as a result o the border-running of liquors in the Great Lakes district comes a dispatch from Detroit which announces that eight months’ investigation by the Treasury "Department has resulted in the arrest of 14 Customs border patrol inspectors, who are charged with obtaining wholesale graft from rumrunning. The United States District Attorney, Mr Watkins, has announced that half tne liquor brought from Canada was being smuggled into the States with the connivance of Customs inspectors, and the entire patrol is being reorgan-
“From now on it is going to lie 100 per cent, honest, and before we are through we expect that approximately AO inspectors will be dropped from tbe service.’’ lie said.
Brilies as high as 1-500 dollars wore collected over a period of six weeks by one inspector, it is alleged.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1928, Page 7
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