Word: carmania
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Foreign ships already in port were not required to throw their liquor overboard-instead it was securely sealed. This happened to the Cedric and the Carmania. In the port of New York crews of vessels belonging to countries which legally require liquor rations for their seamen, continued to receive their liquor. New York Prohibition Director Canfield announced that he had received a telegram from Commissioner Haynes that the United States Public Health Service would issue medicinal liquor permits to such ships on the assumption that since the liquor was legally required it was medicinal. Contradictory reports were issued in Washington...