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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1916, Page 3

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♦ SALE OF COCAINE TO .SOLDIERS FURiJIDDEN'. .London, May 14. Commenting on tlio Army-Council's action forbidding the sale ol cocaine or otirer drugs to soldiers the Daily Graphic states that the action was not unexpected by hospital doctors, ihough the drug habit ino-tl'y is con'tine-d to one of the colonial forces, it is true that officers carry morphia to 'essen acute agony when moved in the ambulances; also undoubtedly in many cases, there is "dioping" by mate ltid female creatures at the railway ter mini. A medical writer urges that men be warned of the grave dangers of "doping'' by atrangens, who, if thoy happen to kill their victim. Know what the soldier does not—that the Thames is handy to their haunts. COMMENT ON" LORD WIMBOURNE. The Timee's Diiblni correspondent all.'ges that Lord; "Wimboiirne did 'lot 'exercise real supervision of the Castle, and never influenced the Rt. Hon. A. Bin-ell's policy, or want of policy, though he must have known what was happening. If he disapproved he should have had the courage to resign when such protest might have averted the calamity.

GlUi A lAN" SL T B<MARIAd!y I>E.SCRIHUD .t.'aptain N'orberg, ot the barque Linheftl, which was sunk on .March 27th, c/ieseribes the submarine U7O as having an emergency surface speed of 25 knots and below surface a speed oi fifteen knots. She carried two guns, six hundred shells and ten torpedoes. She is able to be absent troni h'er base fro froni thirty to forty days. WTien she observed the British destroyer she sank to ten fathoms in fifty seconds. The air is very good: even after submersion for five hours.