The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-31
By DOUGLAS G. TINSLEY. International News Service Staff
 Correspondent

l
 l Savannah, Ga, March 31 The espionage system of the rum snug | glers, who run in huge quantities of the British West Indies, is declared to equa! in perfection that of the old | Russian Empire.
 At least this is the view taken of l the matter by State and county agents who have essayed at times to aid the | Federal prohibition enforcement agents in an effort to break up the illicit whiskey traffic of the snug glers.
 According to State officers, the "heathen Chinee," whose ways are "vain," has nothing on the Georgia liquor runners, who so far have managed to keep a. length ahead of the officers in pursuing the favor fo fate in connection with the liquor business.
 every officer " is,'' is the ai'U Way CTdef Chief Chapman, of the Chatham County don't know they hatch up trick to get him somewhere else than where they want to do business
 12 Men Have Wide Field.
 twelve men to cover a territory of 365 square miles, the whole of Chatham County, has often found himself run ragged by the liquor
 
 with which it was feared he would interfere was on tap, according to his accounts.
 ''They must have barrels of money coming in from the trade he said, because I knowF it must cost them enormous sums to maintain the spy system they do. Why. they are everywhere. Whenever they get ready to unload a big cargo of liquor they phone in and say there is big murder, robbery or other desperate crime going on needing the attention course. we don't know; it may be so, and we have to investigate.
 "Often, when we get to the loca- tion given, all is as peaceful as heaven. Later we learn that about that time big liquor cargo was be- ing unloaded in the opposite direc- tion to that we were in. It is impos- sible to brand these bogus calls as fakes until investigated. The names of some of the people giving them, | always by hearsay,' would surprise you.'
 Police Chief Fooled.
 Neither the Chief of Police nor | Sheriff Dixon, of Chatham County l have been immune from such tricks l of the smugglers. Not long ago, ac- cording to the sheriff, thee hief of po- lice phoned him that he had a posi- tive tip that a large automobile of liquor could be cuaght at a certain place at certain time. This tip liable sources. Acting on it. the sheriff took nearly all his available men, the police chief nearly all his, and they rang in large number of place ace d designated, Hes they 1iS threw a core tn don around the entire section, pa trolled the roads for hours and final ly went home without a single auto mobile having turned up. Next morn ing they learned that while there a ship unloaded several thousand ,ases of standard whiskies and liquors at one of the wharves in Sa-
 One of the humorous features of he illicit liquor trade is the "profes- 'ional' jealousy existing between ellow' who distills his own in the Chatham County swamps and retails t around himself or through person. Il agents. Ii According to the State and county officers the rum runners violently 'esent tho activities of the moon miner and never lose an opportunity o tip off the officers to the location If still in the swamps. Most of hese tips are good, the officers say, I md when a raid is made the still is ( lsually found exactly where it was eported. I
 Resent Moonshiners' Work ~lf This jealousy. they believe, arises rom the fact that the overhead ex- 'enses of operation being so much ( eSS TOT the mOOnSn1ner on account # the small scale on which he op- l rates as compared with the run { lers, the distiller can undersen the lquor runner in the retail market, iquor of the corn variety being way ( nder in selling price the high ( lass stuff that the smuggler andles-
 Under the Georgia law State and ounty officers are almost powerlesst then it comes to enforcing the pro ibition. statute. They state that aere is no provision in the Georgia