"TREATING" SCANDAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 9 June 1915, Page 7

"TREATING" SCANDAL.

BISHOP TELLS OF SCENE IN LIVERPOOL. "My impression ia that there is much more, public drunkenness in Liverpool to-day than I have known ever since I came to Liverpool 15 years ago," said the Bishop of Liverpool, speaking at a conference on "Alcohol and the War" in the Liverpool Church House. His Lordship gave instances of things he had seen on which he based this impression. "A few Sundays ago," he aaid, "I went to see my two sons off—one to the front and the other to the South of England;—by the mail train. I saw there a sad sight, which I ahall never forget. "The departure platform at Lime Street was crowded from end to end. Here were thr«e drunkon sailors, with linked arms rolling up to the train; here were soldiery supporting each other; trying to find their carriages; here we fiends, themselves half-intoxicated, seeing off half-drunken men whom they had treated. The whole place was a pandemonium. "An officer, returning to the front, a complete stranger to me, said: ' ' What a disgusting sight! If these men were at the front they would be shot at once.'; . "It was the saddest send-off I ever saw, and a scandal to a great city like Liverpool," said the Bishop. r A resolution was unanimously passed calling on the Chief Constable to put | into local operation the Temporary Re- , striction Act. - ? <"i