THE DRINK QUESTION IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 6

THE DRINK QUESTION IN BRITAIN

APPEAL BY THE ARCHBISHOP

OF CANTERBURY

(Rec.'April 7, 5.30 p.m.) ' 1 ~ . London, April 6. ■The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Davidson),- in a sermon, exhorted those who were unable to bear arms to help the country in abstaining from drink. The effects would be startling; there would be an enormous change in the whole situation. 2iIR. LLOYD GEORGE'S MAIL-BAG. London, April 6. 'A staff of a dozen sorters is working j&n Mr. Lloyd George's correspondence bn the drink question. Nine mail-bags Arrived on Saturday, each of six thousand letters, and two on Sunday. There . lare many letters from men in training, Iwho support Prohibition.—("Times'' iuid Sydney "Sun" Services.) .'* ' POPULAR ABSTINENCE. (Rec. April 8, 0.5 a.m.) r ; London, April 7. I The King's anti-alcohol decision has plod the. popular imagination. Peers, | ociety leaders, and commercial men ( re joining in the movement. .. Mr. Lloyd George has received one ' f undred thousand abstinence pledges, .'and another fift.y thousand have, signed the pledge at Edinburgh. The "Times," in a leading article' on the subject, says: "Now that the drink question is being fully and freely dismissed, we may say that the broad sentiment of the nation dislikes' the idea tof complete and compulsory Prohibition, though that would probably be accepted Jf the Government emphatically declared it to be desirable and necessary, aet the English race does not like extremes, aiid specially abhors extreme bieasures enacted as law."