CHECK ON SMUGGLERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 9

CHECK ON SMUGGLERS

CANADA’S BILL WILL HELP U.S.A. PROHIBITION DIFFICULTIES United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, Wednesday. It is considered by Treasury officials in Washington that if the Liquor Export Bill, passed yesterday by the Canadian House of Commons, becomes law, it may lead to a dis continuance of liquor smuggling across the border. The officials stated today that about the same prohibition and customs forces will be maintained on the border after the passage of the Bill until its actual effect was known, but they anticipated a material reduction in the personnel of those forces later In that case agents would be transferred to other parts of the country notably to Chicago and New York. Seagoing coastguard craft, now on the Great Lakes, would be transferred to the North Atlantic. On the theory that as soon as one prohibition problem is solved another springs up in its place, the officials raid they anticipated that Canadian liquor smugglers would transfer their activities to the North Atlantic, and establish headquarters at St. Pierre and Miquelon, in the Bahamas, as Canadian liquor could be cleared legally to those ports, and be rer.hipped from there to the United States