DRUGS TO DODGE THE ARMY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 251, 11 July 1918, Page 5

DRUGS TO DODGE THE ARMY

1 ■■ .. . Men of military ago in the Enst End ■ j of London are boasting in their restaurants and workshops of tho ease >vith which a man in ay evade military isorvico by the nso of drugs. It is eaid that jfilO is the average feo for a course of "instruction" and drugs. It ie also offered and taken for bogus silver badges '. and discharge papers. Most of the dodgers aro tailors who earn from £6 to JBIO a week on Govern-, ment contract work. These big wages, when not 6pent on travelling to and from [ an air-bombtidment-proof homo outsido London, often go to the restaurants and gambling-houses. Detection of the .fraud is not easy!. There are men who will deliberately injure their health and actually produce tho symptoms others imitate. One ma,n poisoned himself with lead beyond the hopo of recovery, and will die miserably in consequence of his attempt to avoid military service. Those- who instigate ■ such crimes are generally clever enough. ' to escape detection. So long as they obtain their "fees" for this abominable traffic the men who "introduce" the victims and those 'who supply the drugs do not. care what happens afterwards.. Two years of compulsory military ser- ! vice have revealed' other conspiracies to avoid the Army. The international Anarchist organisation known as the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World) had a complete "course of treat- 1 ment" which 'it recommended to its ; members of military age. It was guaran- ; teed to produce D.A.H. (disorderly action of tho heart) in the fittest man and thus enable tho victims to escape military service.