WET CANTEENS.
DENOUNCED IN AUSTRALIA
DEFENCE MINISTERS' OPINION
In the Senate on the Defence Bill Senator Tiley moved an amendment for the restoration of wet canteens. He pointed out the BelgianH were the biggest and the British the next biggest liquor consumers Jn the world, and recent events had demonstrated their soldiers were not waßters. Senator Ponrce, Minister of Defence, said he did not Intend to accept the amendment For many year* he had advocated wet canteens, but practiacl experience in military campß had entirely changed his views. Wet canteens were a danger and an evil. "Let us remove the danger and temtpation from the path of the solddiers, and give them the opportunity of bringing the greatest credit to Australia and themselves in their grim task in the bloodiest war in
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 724, 25 November 1914, Page 2
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132WET CANTEENS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 724, 25 November 1914, Page 2
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