LIQUOR SMUGGLERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 25, 30 January 1923, Page 7

LIQUOR SMUGGLERS

BAHAMAS PROFIT BY TRADE.

NEW YORK,'2Bth Jannju-y.

The "New York Times" Wa&hinKtoa correspondent says that the State Department has informed Representative Rogers, who ie investigating the situation, that, with the connivance of Batsman officials, two million gallons of whisky have been illegally imported into the United States from the islands since Prohibition had become effective. Mr. Rogers stated' that the Bahaman officials were honest, but without the incentive to take a- strong stand on moral giounds in any matter which -would materially injure the colony.

The traffic was at ite height to-day. Large capital wbb invested in the smuggling system, which was highly, organised and remunerative. Mr. Rogers .stated that the Bahanjan Government derived 1,200,000 dollars revenue from this traffic in 1922, while in 1918 the \revenue from all sources totalled only 400,000 dollars. The vessel* carrying the liquor never proceed from the Bahamas to the ports to which they are cleared, but lie off the American coait, and meet small, speedy boats, which' land the liquor everywhere on the Atlantic coast.