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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 104, 5 November 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

Arrack, a bottle of which, a with ether, and called ""Crown Mixture," is said to be given man soldiers to inspire the "Dutch courage" before gr< slaughtj, must be familiar 1 people who have travelled in tl It should, properly 6peaking, 1 from the flowers or "toddy" coco-palm, but the orthodox (says ''The Westminster Gaze not rigidly observed. In Egy aki," a fiery beverage called bayonets'' by Brit ; sh so!diersj drunk by pious MiJlwiS ni technically the 'anno'' f>r':i: the Koran, is said io !e n'.tai'i the date-palm. Of r?-JJit yen quantises of arrack have been in Germany and Holland from molasses. Kther. the other in in this roval hell-broth, someti p'ants whisky in Ireland, wl cording to one medica] author] practice of ctlicr-drinking K prevalent. - '