Some Leland Retreats in the Bahamas New York, Aug. 8.
Tight little isles in the sea, personally owned and coni-oiled are the newest retreats of Amevicans who seck to defeat the Volstead Act, according to Sir Harry Cordeaux, Governor-General of the Bahamas, and Lord Chief Justice Sir Daniel Tudor, who arrived to-day from Nassau.
Many wealthy Americans are buying or seeking to buy smal! islands in Bahaman territory, the Governor-General said, explaining that the aridity of the United States. was driving them to the sternest measures.—Reuter.
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