A complication has been added by the discovery that the
negro who was drowned was a French citizen. Thus the controversy has become triangular–Canada and Fiance claiming against the. United . States. Even if America could prove that the schooner was within an hour's steaming of the coast, Canada—and Great Britain, of course, in her support—Would deny that the Anglo- American Treaty of 1924 conferred upon America the right to sink the ship. Sinking, we gather; could be done legally only within the three-mile territorial limit- in the case of a rum-running ship resisting seizure. It' is likely that the " Wets " in America will: use the Yin Alone' incident, and several other recent instances ' of personal violence in attempt4 to enforce ProhibitiOn; in Order to work up a new agitation againit the Volstead Act. They seem to be even more incensed by the narra- tive of Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, whose yacht was fired upon by Coastguards, than by the case of Captain Randell, Mr. Fish, with a nice touch, says that when the Coast.: gpards fired bullets across his deck his yacht was " in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty." The yacht was brilliantly lighted,. he adds, and could not possibly have been mistaken for a -smuggler.. * * * *
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