NAVAL BATTLE
WITH RUMRUNNERS. BY U.S.A. COASTGUARD. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. J NEW YORK, September 5. All the scientific refinements 01 modern warfare were employed to-day in a spectacular clash between the coastguards and the rumrunners of ■Gloucester, when one rumrunner was shot to death, and one guardsman was felled by poison gas. Four alleged rumrunners were arrested. A high-powered rumboat, the “Lassghen” was fired upon by a coastguard cutter, and the former smined - ately laid down a smokescreen and a poison gas barrage. Machine-gun fire was then directed ■into the quarry’s hull by the cutter, and when its capture was imminent, upon the “Lassghen’s” disablement, her crew unsuccessfully attempted to burn her to prevent the seizure of her cargo of four hundred cases of liquor. Efforts were made by the coastguards at Kingston, *- in Massachusetts, to recover several boatloads of liquor which the rumrunners had dumped into the Jones River flats. These efforts resulted in volleys of gunfire from ambushed rumrunners. The coastguards
) then dived into the river and escaped injured. Later they recovered 290 ? cases of liquor. • , •
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19310907.2.28
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1931, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
181NAVAL BATTLE Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1931, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in