American Prohibition

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 99, 31 August 1923, Page 8

American Prohibition

WHISKY FLEET'S OPERATIONS. THE BOLD CAPTAIN'S STORY. FORTUNES IN THE GAME. Press Asso€ia.tion—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.25 p.m.) London, August .30. The Daily Express publishes an interview with C'apt. Clare, commodoH> of the. so-called Whisky Fleet trad ing between Nassau, in the Bahamas, and the United States. He said he was not a smuggler but a legitimate trader, and sold * goods which were in demand, just as he might have sold in any market place. His market, place was the high seas. He made twelve trips frum Nassau in 1922 and never once had been nearer the American coast than eighteen miles, and never once had seen preventive men. Captain Clare said: "AH America cannot stop you in this game if you are careful. Prohibition has been a regular philosopher's stone to little one-horse Nassau. Sky-scraping warehouses have been rushed up and crammed with whisky, as also have great blocks of offices m*d sumptuous hotels. Men who two years ago were struggling store dorks now own yachts, country mansions, and motor cars. One man' I worked with bought a ship with borrowed money, and made £IB.OOO in addition to the cost of the ship in eighteen days. Another cleared £IO,OOO in one run out and hack, lasting eight days. Even priests and the poKce are engaged in the whisky trade at Nassau."