DRUGGING TO AVOID CONSCRIPTION.
The latest instance of what young men will do in order to avoid doing military service comes from Rhenish Prussia, where the stringent investigation of the military authorities have resulted iu the discovery that the practice of giving drugs to young men liable to military service, with the object of incapacitating them, is alarming wide-spread ; and this, despite the fact that severe examples have been made from time to time of those caught offending in this way. At Elberfeld, .some mouths ago, for instance, several young men were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, for using drugs to this end.
The authorities have also arrested doctors in Dnsscldorf find Zeichlingen, who have been pursuing lucrative business in this line for some time past, young men coming to thorn from far and near.
The sons of certain wealthy parents paid them large sums, in some cases as much as £IOOO for pills and other medicines, which, were taken two or three times a day before their examination by the military doctors, gave them the appearance of jaundice or heart disease.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 September 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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183DRUGGING TO AVOID CONSCRIPTION. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 September 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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