SOLDIERS AND LIQUOR
STRONG ALLEGATIONS. (Eec. July 12, 'B.W p.m.)' Sydney, July 12. . j The I?cv. Mr. Hanmumd, giving ovi- ; dence before the Senate Committee which : is inquiring into the drink traffic, 6tated ; that considerable numbers of men from inebriate- homes were allowed to enlist and wore sent overseas. -Sometimes after har- ' ing been discharged for drunkenness they re-enlisted several times. The bulk of • them were sent back without having fired a shot, and became a charge as returned soldiers upon tho public funds. : Ho also declared that a growing evil was the absent soldiers' wives-Spending .; their husbands' - pay on drink.—Press j Assn. . -i
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 253, 13 July 1918, Page 7
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104SOLDIERS AND LIQUOR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 253, 13 July 1918, Page 7
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