BOOTLEGGERS SWINDLE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2753, 20 September 1923, Page 8

BOOTLEGGERS SWINDLE.

FLAGRANT TRICKERY,

LONDON, Sept. 17. There is flagrant trickery in the bootlegging business between the. dealer and the seller, and between the distributor and the retailer, each playing false with the other—adulterating, swindling, robbing, and pirating < English exporters recently sent out a spy with the view of stopping adulteration. They heard no more of him. He was murdered or caused to disappear, or else he joined in the swindle himself. The bootleggers have become so annoyed at the constant adulteration that they have takeii most rigorous precautions. As Nassau, Bahama Island, which is the centre of trado, they threatened to use violence, and adulteration has in consequence diminished. One trader was ruined by purchasing a cargo of sea water offered as whisky, but he failed t'o obtain redress. The bootleggers themselves are shockingly bad judges of whißky. They refuse to purchase unless the liquor has' a

"kick" and consider the "best variety resembles a glass of fish hooks, and is calculated to make a tame rabbit, after one t'caspoonful, fight like a bull. dogr.

Some Englishmen who engaged in gigantic traffic quickly made sufficient to purchase a ship for a colossal deal. They sold at such a profit thg,t they did not bother to take the ship into harbour, but sank her where she lay, and returned to England as first-class passengers.

The- port of Nassau recenved 37,821 gallons of whisky in 1£27, and 1,340,446 in 1922.