Off-Shore

Attorney General Stone made public statistical data on numbers of foreign vessels engaged in organized liquor smuggling into the U. S.:

British vessels 307

Norwegian vessel 10

French vessels 4

Others 11

Total 332

As many as 63 of these ships have been known to be off our coast at one time, waiting to transship their cargoes into small boats that usually do the actual smuggling. Most of the foreign vessels lie well out at sea but, under the new liquor treaties permitting seizure of vessels within an hour's sailing distance of the coast, 16 have been seized: 13 British, one Norwegian, one French, one Italian.