Much excitement is said to have been caused amongst the
owners of the great passenger lines trading with the United States, and among those who travel by them, by the opinion of the United States Attorney-General, Mr. Daugherty, that under the 18th Amendment no vessel can enter American territorial waters whilst carrying alcoholic liquor even in a scaled store. In a letter published in Washington last Saturday the President formally instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to draw up regulations for enforcing this opinion and give notice of them to the agents of foreign shipping lines. If such regulations are strictly enforced, the result will be that all ships entering an American port will have to jettison any surplus wine, beer or spirits which they brought out for use on the passage, and that the return journey will have to be. made dry.
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