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Show BOOZE SELLING; Ml 01! SEAS IS DISCOVERED BrituK Cabinet Iteceires Report on Smuggling In-to In-to U. S.; Stock Sold for Wholesale Traffic Plan " ' ? ' ' " ' ,v,', LOrfPOX, July TH Th report nf committee appointed to lnvestl-e:at lnvestl-e:at liquor smunKling Into th I'M ted. Htates wss laid befor th British cabinet today, and a, statement state-ment on the ubect will b mads in commons, probably .next week. Hlmultaneouely with this announcement, an-nouncement, th DsJh Express today to-day exposed attempt by Lleutsn-ant Lleutsn-ant Colonel Blr Broderlck Hartwell Bart, former consul at Naples, to rale funds for a whisky selling; expedition ex-pedition on th high sesa. . A circular was laaued In v1 tine; subscriptions of lll.ed or mors to send ten thousand cases of liquor to foreign ports on a prlvat ship ua der sesled ordsrs within a month. Th baronet stated h alroady had arranged for a 000 esses and guarantee guar-antee to return th Invested money plus to per cent Intereat'wlthln slaty sla-ty days. Th circular states fhat Hnrtwell received a ajuaranta of $ 50,000 that tha sroods would be accepted and paid for twenty mile off shor of the unnamed deailnntlon. It declare that plana wcr made to send "abrosd" at , least lt.OO caae monthly. This means larg fortune wherein you can pure ha a without risk:, th circular continue. "Th business Is perfectly legal and quit safe Hartwell Is Quoted aa teilln the Dally Express. "It amounts t ths fact that I am setting up a wholes 1 whlaky shop on ths high seaa. Th profits to Investors In-vestors would amount to ! per rent In slaty days. Th gwemment has Indicated that ths parliamentary commlsalon which la now Investigating Investi-gating th situation haa found a solution so-lution permitting th United Rtatr searching rlrhta within a twelve-mil twelve-mil sons. Tha cabinet la expocted to adopt it. . - |