THE RUM RUNNERS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 5

THE RUM RUNNERS

CANADIAN CHECK. LUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] WASHINGTON, March 27. The Canadian Government’s enaction of a new l.quor clearance law, as cabled on March 25th, may bring about the discard of border smuggling, i\> it is an important prohibition of smuggling in the opinion of U.S.A. Treasury officials who said that while about the same Prohibition and Customs forces will be maintained on the border after the Bill’s passage until its actual effect is known, the officials anticipate a material reduction of the border personnel later, the agents being transferred from the border to other parts of the country, and notably to Chicago and New York. The sen going coastguard craft now on the Great Lakes, would, the officials added, be then transferred to the North Atlantic rum blockade- for on theory that, as soon as one Prohibition problem has been solved, anothei springs up in its place, tlie officials anticipate that the Canadian rum smugglers will transfer their activities to the North Atlantic, with their headquarters at St. Pierre, Miquelon, and the Bahamas, since Canadian liquor could be cleared legally thereto, and then reshipped to the United States.