LONDON AT ITS DRIEST.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 2 December 1915, Page 4

LONDON AT ITS DRIEST.

COFFEE, SOUP AND HOT DRINKS

PUBLIC ACCEPTS SITUATION,

LONDO|K, December 1

The newspapers give prominence to semijhumoTous articles on the so-ca'led “Driest London.” Many public houses are open during prohibited hours, and endeavour to popularise coffee, soup, and hot dishes. They are doing a roaring trade in coffee between seven and nine o’clock, when the workers are going to the factories. A number of houses do not open before mid-day. The regulations permit intoxicants during general lunch. Swell West End clubs and the smallest suburban saloons have strictly - observed orders. There are few public protests, though the trade union agitation continues. There are many comments that the bars in the dining-rooms in the House of Commons are exempted from the (restrictions. The “Dadly says there is a. strong feeling that Cabinet should set an example of economy.

Mr Thomas, M.P., speaking at Battersea, said the liquor order did not distinguish between the East End and the West End. Russia to-day was saved because she prohibited Vodka. What Russia and France had done, England could do.