Rum Runners. British subjects on the high seas may be punished by the U. S. under the Volstead Act, if they are hovering with rumful purpose anywhere off the coast of the U. S. Thus did Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the Supreme Court interpret last week the 1925 liquor treaty between the U. S. and Great Britain. Said he: "To give immunity to the cargo and guilty persons on board would be to clear those whose guilt should condemn the vessel and to restore to them the liquor and thus...
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