RUNNING THE CUTTER.

Shannon News, 2 October 1923, Page 3

RUNNING THE CUTTER.

ENORMOUS PROFITS MADE. There is flagrant trickery in the bootlegging busjiness. between the dealer and the seller and between the distributor an’d the retailer, each playing false with the other —adulterating, swindling, robbing and pirating. English exporters recently sent out a spy with the view to stopping adulteration. They heard no- more of him. He was murdered or .caused to disappear, or else ho joined in the swindle himself. The bootleggers have become so annoyed at the constant adulteration that they have taken most rigorous precautions. At Nassau, Bahama Island, which is the centre of trade, 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 to obtain redress. _ The boot-leggers themselves are shockingly bad judges, of whisky. 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 teaspoonful fight a bulldog. Some Englishmen who engaged in gigantic traffic quickly made sufficient to purchase a ship for a colossal deal. They sold at such a profit that they ... 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 received 37,821 gallons of whisky in 1917 and 1,340,44), in 1922. —Sydney Sun cable.