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Many a sailor shanghaied at Aden, has been carried round Cape Guardafui, easternmost point of Africa, and down its coast to Zanzibar, without ever knowing that after passing the Cape he sailed for 1,000 miles past the Italian protectorate of Somaliland...
...their books after true accomplishment, they are rather mistaken Not any society in the world has done away with the horse thief. He has merely changed with the times. As the gypsies who once told fortunes by colored vans in country lanes now make fortunes with colored sedans from coast to coast, so the horse thief who once led stolen mares to a ready market now steers stolen Marmons to dealers in modern antiques. Indeed, the last page of the records of the Milford Society should contain, and obituary notice, not of the horse thief but of the horse...
Rear Admiral Billard has been in close touch with the actual conditions along the seaboard, and has himself witnessed the fights between bootleggers and hijackers, and machine-gun encounters between bootleggers and hijackers on one side and the Coast Guard on the other...
...Coast Guard Commandant, who has been in charge of the recent block ades of the rum ships off the Atlantic coast, particularly off New York, declares that Rum Row has been effectively scattered, but that rum ships in greatly reduced numbers are still discovered in ever-changing positions, endeavoring to evade the vigilance of the Coast Guard...
Tentative arrangements have been made by the Union to secure Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard, to deliver a talk on the sea-fighting along...