3 NOVEMBER 1923, Page 2

We are very glad to say that there seems to

be a good prospect of an arrangement being made between the British and the American Governments by which the three-mile limit off the American coasts may be extended provisionally to twelve miles in order that liquor running may be more easily prevented. The British Government hold strongly to the three-mile limit as a necessary principle, but it seems to us, and we dare say to them,' that the recognition of a temporary exception will tend rather to strengthen than to weaken the, general rule. A friendly arrangement is urgently required in order to end a scandal in which decent Englishmen are ashamed. to think that some of their countrymen have had a considerable part.