RUM-RUNNERS CAUGHT
COASTGUARDSMEN’S ARREST FOLLOWS RAID NEW YORK, Saturday. At New London, Connecticut, 24 coastguardsmen were charged before a court-martial with being intoxicated and with the theft of liquors from the Flor del Mar, after the rum-runner was captured on December 29. The coastguard off Newport on December 29 fired upon an escaping American rum-runner known as the Black Duck. They killed three men on board and seriously wounded one. A large cargo of liquor was captured. Another rum-runner, supposed to be a British ship, the Flor del Mar, was discovered on fire by a coast patrol off Montauk. She was laden with liquor.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 863, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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104RUM-RUNNERS CAUGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 863, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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