“CROWN PRINCE'S MIXTURE”
DRINK-MADDENED TROOPS FOR . FORLOIIN HOPES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Roc.. July 25, 3 p:m.) • Copenhagen, July 24. . ; V: Soldiers of North Sclileswig, who have . returned, from the Argonne, declare . that,the valuo of human life in the Crown Prince's army since the war be- . man was never lower. Enormous quantities of alcohol are distributed daily. ■The most effective ...drink isi popularly known as the Crown. Prince's mixture— ether and arrack. ■ - A bottle is handed to each soldier in the trenches prior to a great onslaught. ■ -They .frequently ■ saw soldiers,; drinlc- . : maddened, charging with a bottle in one hand and bombs in tho other, utterly dazed, and oblivious to danger.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 26 July 1915, Page 6
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110“CROWN PRINCE'S MIXTURE” Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 26 July 1915, Page 6
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