Show T S S Kum Rum it J. J Runners Shift From Froth I Bahamas to Old London L LONDON rno X Mar 1 By A. A P The p.-The The London newspapers have hav openly announced announced announced an an- that the bootleg ring 5 which has long operated into the United States through the Bahamas has shifted Its center to London This is larg largely ly the result of the acceptance by Great Britain of the United States proposition that suspected sus sus- 1 British vessels can be stopped within an hours hours' sailing time of the United coast instead d of ot the theod td od three-mile three limit Recent arrests of or prominent United Bahama-United States tIm runners was another cause causa ot of tf te e. e i hift It was too easy for United States Cents 1 to spot rum buyers In In the Bahamas and flash information to the tRo United States State There the center t of tet the e SJ traffic T has hb been shifted London Here there are ara 2000 firms engaged a in n buying and n spirits ose and it I Is I Impossible s b to detect purchases purchases pur pur- c chases ases In behalf of the United state rum rpm runners JN N THE LIMEHOUSE The new headquarters of ot the Unit Unit- running rum ruin ring are In ln the district of ot London where e everything foul and unclean can can be ben beJ bek I found n The head of the organization nato ato fh tion J is k known n in London o as Captain C Candid lie He Is a a. former Baltic shipbroker shipbroker ship ship- broker who Is English by b b r h b but lt who has a spent a 1 large part o of his Iffe nl ft the United lt d States e A large arge a J Jiff fm of distillers w which formerly IY did iff big l legitimate m business e In the unIted is credited with be bev be J. J Lpg g a associated financially and otherwise otherwise other other- wise in the traffic bout About of ot spirits enter tb the London docks every week Much of ot that quantity is N sold old ld and resold so that h tracing Its ownership on a 0 r large scale is impossible t Captain Candid is said sald to be a past master in disguising cargoes and veiling their destination He has a abIg abig big payroll and andon on tm n his staff are are some offline best mariners as well as the wr worst cutthroats In London ICan Can system is said to Involve a carefully fully screened wireless system The tramp steamers hired slip out Cardiff or some other British port t and discharge their cargoes I somewhere along the tho vast vest United States States' seacoast Then they appear in some English or preferably neutral port in ballast Few of them have anything to do with the rum row row Just outside of New York When they hey go 10 and how the they unload their rum is not generally generall known HARDER TO TRACE It is stated that rum rum Is carried by this brand of ot runners over whisky or brandy as easier to disguise and harder to trace The rum runners have a heavy capItal capital capital cap cap- ital and profits are Immense A small cargo will wilt clear and a big one from OOOO to London papers say that American prohibition agents have been working on the he new rum for several weeks They have located Captain headquarters and two of the sleuths even got inside the buildIng building building build build- ing but only to the outer bar They were detected and thrown out before before before be be- fore they could penetrate to the Inner snuggery where the details are ar arranged ar- ar ranged Note that they were thrown The rum running out out not not killed syndicate t may not hesitate s at lh murder u la in the United States t or on the high seas but it has lias no desire to rt rl rua 1 afoul of ot the London authorities here What hat the dealers are doing here is virtually legal as fax far faras as purchase and shipment goes and they ey are not molested molested molested mo mo- by the London police poUce That Is why they avoid anything that might make their business a matter of BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish criminal concern I |