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 were under inquiry at the time of tEis writing. Application to export 90IOOO gallons were denied.
 Why? Because thorough inquiry into all phases of the proposed trans actions failed to convince the de- partment that the liquor covered by the applications would be used, in fact, for beverage purposes. In some instances there was a strong presumption, amounting almost to conviction, that the liquor would be diverted at once to illicit channels in this country.
 During the same period we re- ceived applications from importers who wanted to bring into the United States-Solely, their affidaVits said, for non beverage purposes-nearly 143 900 gallons of wine and 2,750 gal lens of brandy Notwithstanding the fact that we have in the country at the present time a quantity of wine seemingly sufficient to meet every legitimate requirement., the repre- sentations were made that this wine. because of peculiar and beneficial properties not found in domestic wines, was urgently needed here.
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 Particulars As To Church Wines.
 Much of the wine was wanted for church use. In numerous cases the plea was made that for many years church members had used for SaCra- mental purposes the particular kind of wine for which the application was made. Some of the brandy, i'm porters represented, also was wanted for sacramental purposes.
 Permission was granted, in justt- liable cases, to import about 2b'OOO gallons of wine. or less than one fifth of the amount sought,
 Some of the applications bore on f Iafr 1ai in i'm ioa nf intent. For instance, certain church official had signed a supporting doc ument in which he said that for many years the men and women under his spiritual guidance had used in their devotions wine of a certain kind supporting a second application teS- tified above his signature that his flock had always used wine of an entirely different kind made in France.
 Even though the government is de- sriouS of aiding in every way the legitimate importer and exporter what can be done in such case as the one in question?
 The million gallon whisky shippers were going to send their whisky. ac- cording to applications, to the follow ing destinations:
 Scotland, 668, ,000 gallons; England, S5.O0 gallons; British Columbia, 92,. 900 gallons; New Brunswick. 4O,OOO gallons; Germany, 11,000 gallons, anu Cuba, 4,5O0 gallons. That made up virtually the entire total of 7,00O gallons to export which permission was denied.
 Does any one acquainted with the facts seriously believe that Scotland, home of whisky exported the world over, really needs 66S,000 gallons or American whisky for non-beVerage cAT1I A the Province of British, Columbia where American whisky Is virtually unknown save to the few export houses and bootleggers along, the coast and border. has dire need Tor 92.000 gallons? gallons of American rye? And what would New Brunswick do with 4O'oOQ gallons of our liquor which coui legally be disposed only to the III! It Would Have Come Back.
 Had the applications been granted much of this exported whisky prop ably would have been back in the United States, watered down, doc- tored and peddled by bootleggers within 30 to 90 days after It's depar turn from our shores. We have actual proof in many cases of just this prac- tice. American whisky, exported to British Columbia for on-beVerage purposes only---upon affidavits Of the Canadian importer-has been plckeo up by prohibition agents In the haunts of California bootleggers' seized on motor boats plying between Pacific rum runners and the coast, and found in the city of Seattle anu other points near the Canadian DOT der where it had been illegally trans ported across the line by bootleggers in automobiles.
 Nor are the attempts to violate the American law confined to the resi- dents of those countries l have al ready mentioned The prevalence or Cholera in India has been advanced as basis of export of American whisky, and affidpvits have been presented to set forth that other whisky applied for was intended TOT non beverage use in Africa Ihese applications were denied where the conclusion was reached that the liquor. far from going to India or Africa, where there Is only micro scopic demand for American whisky. was to have been diverted to the rum-runners off the Atlantic coast
 Q Q o |. Devices of the COnspfrators.
 International conspirators against the American prohibition laws are icta al r