PROTECTING SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 224, 10 June 1918, Page 4

PROTECTING SOLDIERS

NO LIQUOR FOR PATIENTS. Regulations have been gazetted prohibiting tho 6alo of or supply of alcoholic liquor to soldiers who .are undergoing medical treatment. The new rules, which arc laid down Tinder the War Regulations Act, are as follow:— (1.) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall sell or supply any intoxicating liquor— (a) To any member of an Expeditionary Forco (after the date when ■ such member has first been called into a camp of military training) ■while such member is undergoing medical or .curative treatment as a patient in, or an outpatient of, any hospital or other institution, whether such sale or supply takes place within such hospital or other institution as aforesaid or clsowhere; or (b) To any person who has been discharged from an Expeditionary Force, and who is undergoing medical or curative treatment as a patient in, or an outpatient of any hospital or other institution, whether such sale or supply takes place within such hospital of other institution as aforesaid or elsewhere. (2.) Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall apply to iho supply of intoxicating liquor to any person by or pursuant to the directions or with" tho authority of any medical officer or medical practitioner having control or caro of that person. (3.) It shall bo a good defence in any proceedings for a breach of these regulations if the defendant proves that he did not know, and had no reasonable ground for suspecting i that tho person to whom lie sold or supplied tho intoxicating liquor was a member of an Expeditionary Force, or had been discharged from an Expeditionary Force, and w-as undergoing medical or curative treatment in any hospital or other institution.