The New York herald., 1922-08-01
rum BLOCKADE Laid
|. ON ALL north COAST
Bigger Dry Navy Covers
SeabOard From Philadel-
phia to Boston.
SUB CHASERS ADDED
Boats Armed With Rifles,
One Founders and Sawed
Off ShOtguns.
TO RUN FROM NEW YORK
Patrol Will Operate to Twelve
Mile Customs Limit Ready
for Real Warfare.
TO RUN FROM NEW YORK


| VIA bootleg blockade of the Atlantic
coast from Philadelphia 70 Boston has
been established by the prohibition au-
thorities, and arrival of four former
submarine chasers and two high pow
cred launches as adjuncts of the Pro-
hibition Navy accompanied declara-
tion of war to the death on the deep
sea rum runners who have been flood
ing the coast with liquor from the
Bahamas and the West Indies.
The augmented Prohibition Navy
will make its headquarters in and
around New York harbor. at Ambrose
Channel, Quarantine, convenient points
in Jamaica Bay and along the Long
Island Sound. From these points the
rum chasers. armed with one Founders,
rifles and sawed off shotguns, will
cruise beyond the three mile limit and
hunt out the mysterious whisky ships
whose cargoes so far have been landed
without very much trouble on the New
Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut
shores.
John d. Appleby, enforcement zone
chief for New York and New Jersey
and admiral of the Prohibition Navy,
indicated operations of the rum
chasers will be about as secret as were
movements of first line battleships
during the war. The larger boats will
cruise more or less at will and the
lighter craft will do liaison work be-
tween the chasers and prohibition
headquarters ashore.
! Will Go Out Twelve Mites.
I We now have four ex-submarire
chascrs. the Hahn, Taylor. Hansen ard
Larsen. and two motorboats capable OF
thirty-five miles an hour. in addition tc
! our fleet of fishing smaclSs eff the New
Jersey coast Mr.. Appleby said Each
submarine chaser carries one pound
4 gun and has crew of fourteen, includ.
I ing two customs inspectors, thereby per.
4 Titting us to operate to the twelve mils
| customs limit The motor boats carry
| crews OF four TO Ave men, al, urohibi.
! ton agents, and each will be equipped
with high powered rifles and sawed of
y shotguns
with the fleet ar its present strenrft
and forty-fve agents added TO my staff
! | expect TO cover New York harbor and
the Jersey coast in a manner to make
/ il almost impossible for rum runners Il
bring their cargoes ashore While ths
4 eA-submarine chasers cover the higr
seas from Philadelphia north the motor
beats will patrol the coast line within
the three mile limit and the rivers and
harbors Of New York and New Jersey
Last reports to prohibition headquar.
tcrs were that about FIVE whisky lader
ssagoing vessels were just outside ths
three mile linit. While none OF the
/ authorities would discuss the presence Of
these vessels. il was reported the pro
hibition navy had been sent after then
and first blood might soon be shed II
the Atlantic bootleg war.
4 New ships Not HcraIdcd.
The prohibition authorities have no.
exactly been shouting from the house
tops that they we're rapidly acquiring 9
! formidable navy. First word Of the ar
rival of reinforcements came not from
! prohibition headquarters, but from
Thomas II. Whittle. Surveyor of tn,
1 Port, in a statement on seizures mad,
during the last fiscal year. The figure,
we're such that Mr.. Whittle began tc
speculate on the future and In thi.
speculation he mentioned the presence o.
the submarine chasers, OF which he sale
there were Ave.
Seizures of the Surveyors squad dur
ing the year included 121. 902 bottles o.
whisky, 20 barrels OF liquor, 10 pound.
OF crude opium. 10 cans of smoking
opium. seven skins OF smoking opium
so pounds of cocaine. 30 pounds of NOR
phine. pounds of heroin. 12S revolvers
ses Birds OF Paradise, 459 bundles o
a.grettes, so diamond rings. 10 miscel
laneous articles set with diamonds anc
a large quantity OF sundry merchandise
The searching squad that confiscatec
this mass of stuff Is composed OF ter
/ inspectors and seven customs guards
whose activities are supplemented by tho
| Bureau OF Customs Guards and a specia
squad OF custom guards detailed foi
searching purposes.
The seized narcotics were wortl
s23.750. No valuation was placed OF
the liquors. which probably cost 81 !
bottle in foreign ports and might pos
sibly have sold for $40 II smuggied into
| the country. At that ratio the run
cargoes cor fiscated would have a hootlet
value here of nearly a million and 9
quarter dollars.
A large number of vessels. from
canoes to n large steamer, were seized
i as we'll az fifteen automobiles T~'
arrests totaled 716, OF which 600 wei
for liquor smuggling The fines aggrc
gated s13.456 and the prison sentence,
were from one day to three years. The
squads activities poured $4,000 u
duties into Uncle Sans Golfers. which
would not have got there except fol
their work. Stowaways 10 the number
OF sixty-one were found. One liquor
seizure was made June 81. rfs-r q
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