GERMAN ANTI-ALCOHOLIC ORDER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 4

GERMAN ANTI-ALCOHOLIC ORDER.

An important step in combating the excessive use of alcohol "by German soldiers has been taken by commanders of four Army corps, the fourteenth,* j fifteenth, sixteenth and twenty-first who \ have issued orders doing away with what was in effect a compulsion to drink beer or nothing on holidays, or other special occasions. At such times the soldiers are permitted to draw a portion of their earnings. Instead, however, 'of receiving money, they get beer checks, good at the military canteens. The new orders provide that these checks shall hereafter be accepted also for coffee and other non-alcoholic drinks. It is reported that the new orders have tho especial approval of the Emperor.

One hundred thousand bushels of Tasmnman apple;,, a record shipment, arrived m London on tho 2nd May by (ho Medic. There were busy scones iit their salp at L'ovent Garden on tho following Monday. Good prices wore realised, ns (he apples Hero suitable tor storage. They sold at 7s 6d per bushel |->o X upwards.' Lai-Re quantities \ycrc rcshippecl to Hamburg, whoro previous pmallcr conbignmonts had brought much better prices than were obtainable iq London.