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Show DEADLY STUFF FROM CANADA Bootleggers Have Secret Routes All Along Border. FAKE LABELS ARE ATTACHED Alcohol Shipped to Canada Is Doctored Doc-tored and Slipped Dack Across Border Bor-der by the Bootleggers Sham Rob-berlea Rob-berlea Part of the Game Dominion "Drug Concerns' Are Doing Thrlv-Ing Thrlv-Ing Business. "From overy province in Canada to every state bordering on the boundary line, bootleggers are working certain routes with nil the secrecy of tho Ku Klux Klan. Fake companies, called 'drug concerns,' lire formed In Cnnndn. As such they receive permits for the Importation of alcoholic mixtures, but more frequently pure alcohol. Once that alcohol is on tho Canadian side of the border the booze doctor adds extracts and Ingredients to make finished fin-ished nrtlcles. Then the doctored mixture mix-ture Is smuggled across tho line by bootleggers." Tho foregoing statement was made at Ileglnn, Snsk., by Dr. It. 0. Matthews, Mat-thews, prohibition commissioner for the United Stntcs government, at an International conference this week attended at-tended by representatives of four Western provinces, Ontario and the United States. More Drastic Laws. As a result of tho conference the governments In Canada nnd the United Uni-ted States will he naked to supplement supple-ment each other's liquor laws; American Amer-ican authorities will he asked not to grant permits for the shipment of liquor Into Canada, except by consent con-sent of the provincial governments, nnd the Dominion government will he asked not to release liquor from bond to be shipped across the line. Members of tho Saskatchewan Liquor commission told the conference thnt 00,000 gallons of hnrd liquor are In the province In warehouses; 123,-000 123,-000 gallons In bonded warehouses, and 40,000 gallons of alcohol held In bond by five companies. One Instance was cited In which a enr wns shipped from Kentucky to Winnipeg. The shipper, Canadian, made arrangements to have the car robbed In Minneapolis. During the "frnmed" robbery ft man was shot and killed; the consignee arrested, nnd, after being liberated on ball, sent the car to a Reglna liquor firm. After It was doctored here, It was handed out to smugglers. To give the doctored liquor tho appearance of the' genuine article, fake labels are attached and fake excise stamps nfllxcd. By the Tralnload. It was stated at the conference thni not only arc carloads of liquor coming com-ing Into Canada from tho United States, but that whole trnlnloads are being shipped northward Into tho Dominion. Do-minion. These huge shlpmcnta are apparently ap-parently quite legal, for they nre being be-ing shipped across under United Stntes federal permits nnd ostensibly for me-dlclnnl me-dlclnnl purposes. This liquor returns later to the United Stntes in the form of bootleggers' stock. Ono feature of the Illicit operations is that Canada does not get the benefit bene-fit of exchange, on American currency paid by bootleggers for this American whiskey, or doctored whiskey made from American alcohol. Vast sums in American funds paid by ruin runners from the South are transmitted to Chicago Chi-cago and other points by express to pay for alcoholic Importations. It Is even stated thnt tho recent hold-up of a railway express messenger nenr Moose. Jaw, Saskatchewan, and the rob-bery rob-bery of nn express car were perpetrated perpe-trated by ono international crook looking look-ing for a shipment of such currency. Polico ofllclals from Mlnot, N. D., on a recent visit to Ileglna, declared they had seen forged American revenue labels being printed In n Iteglna establishment |