Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-06 | Page 1 | Liquor Traffic Block Sought

lIOU LIQUOR R TRAFFIC BLOCK tK SOUGHT 13 U. U S. S Seeks French Aid to to Stem Flow w From Northern Islands By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Prea Staff Correspondent 4 PARIS PARIS July 5 5 United Press A pren A formal ial pr protest t st has been made mad by bythe bythe bythe the United States State government against g the the fl flow flaw w of liquor or into the States State fro from the French Frenchi i illa islands ds of St. St Pierre an and Miquelon it if was was' revealed today taday France an willing HUng to please please Washington Wash ash ashIngton I ington ordered the tho governor of oC the islands J. J H H. H E. E Ensch to control the liquor traffic closely and I pro pre r. r en vent irregularities les Since Canada tightened Its regulations regulations regulations regu regu- lations go governing the export of oC whisky the two t tiny 1 islands lying off tt the c coast ast of Newfoundland Nc have hae become tho chief center of the liquor supply of ot the United States as far tar faras faras I as imports are concerned The American protest was kept a close iose secret until the ministry of oC colonies confirmed it today The ministry makes no effort to deny that the 12 islands lands once once nothing but barren rock and the tho poorest t of ot the French col colonies have come into great ireat wealth and and assumed r real rCa im importance Im- Im since Canada undertook to help the tho United Stat States s curb liquor runners Shiploads of ot cases o of ot liquor and wines leave French rench lorts ports every week destined for St. St Pierre a Pierre a perfectly legal procedure The liquor is delivered to commission n men men at St. St Pierre wl v o clear it from the Islands for for- some destination other than tho United stat States s and then transfer It Jt to an armada of small fast ast fast armed mo motor or cruisers which are equipped with wireless and usually make a safe sate and rapid journ journey y t to tho the aMine aMino coast