LIQUOR FOR AMERICA.
ILLICIT TRADE REVELATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. Received August 22, 10.50 p.m. New York, August 22. The New York Herald sent an investigator to the Bahama Islands, who reports that 10,000 cases of alcoholic liquids are smuggled into the United States every week by rum runners. Statistics show that in the 1913 the Bahamas exported 59,000 gallons of liquors, valued at 48,000 dollars, but in 1920 the figures were 204,000 gallons valued at 1,114,000 dollars. The correspondent declares the Bahamas were on the verge of bankruptcy until the illicit rum trade filled the revenue coffers and gave the operators vast profits, since liquors are sold in the United States at ten times their actual value.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1921, Page 5
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119LIQUOR FOR AMERICA. Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1921, Page 5
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