RUM-RUNNER SUNK
(Press Assn.-
CAPTAIN'S GRAVE CHARGE ! AGAINST U.S. COAST • GUARDS I
-By Telegraph — Copyright.)
Rec. Nov. 4, 7.0 p.m. j BOSTON, Tuesday. I The British Consulate has report- ! ed that Captain James Bellman, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, asserted that j a United States coast guard patrol boat deliberately ramjmed and sank his craft, a British registered power boat, Soplr'e E, seven miles outside the 12 mile limit. Captain Bellman stated that his vessel was lying 19 miles off Cape Ann. He fiashed signals to the contact boats requesting them to come ! from shore ahd take his liquor cargo j away. The flashes attracted the coast j guard vessel which allegedly bore down on the power boat sinking her immediately. A cutter reScued the crew of nine men, but a valuable cargo of liquor was lost. The coast guard officials refused to comment, except to say that Captain Bellman's boat was a notorious rumrunner, was without lights, and was struck aecidentally.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 63, 5 November 1931, Page 3
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