THE RUM SHIP
SAME OWNERS
AS THE “I’M ALONE.”
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] WASHINGTON. January 27.
The (nited States State Department reports are said to indicate that not only was the “Josephine K.”
the shooting of which was cabled oil January 26, an American-owned vessel but her ownership was the same as that of the rum-runner ‘‘Tin Alone” who seizure was cabled on April 6th. 1929. Both vessels were under Canadian registry, but it is alleged that they were controlled by a dummy Canadian organisation, while their actual owners are a New York rum ring. the chief operators of which are now in prison, or are on bail.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1931, Page 6
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109THE RUM SHIP Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1931, Page 6
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