Rum-running By Radio

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 25, 2 January 1931, Page 6

Rum-running By Radio

Transmitting Plant Seized

RECENTLY American Federal agents seized a 250-watt short-wave radio plant which was being operated by rum-runners to keep in touch with the liquor fleet. This raid was the fourth assault on the radio plants of an extensive ruih-running organisation which is-said to do about £3,000,000 of business a year. The discovery was made by the use of a new directional deyvice,, about which there is considerable secrecy. The radio equipment was located in the bar of an hotel, while in an upstairs room was found a heap of par tially charred paper-the remains of a code book, evidently destroyed just prior to the departure. In various other parts of the room were charts of the Atlantic Ocean, bearing crosses and smudges, presumably the locations of ships. In some way the operators learned of the impending raid, and they all escaped.