BRITISH SPIRITS RELEASED.
(ATJS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTER.)
(Received February 23, 5.5 ;.p,m.)
LONDON, 21st February.
The Press Bureau states that the British Cabinet has decided that the quantity of spirits to be. released is to be increased 50 per cent., owing to the urgent representations- from doctors, and others that more spirits are required to combat the influenza epidemic now raging here.
Are Prohibitionists anxious to save 'the lives of their fellow citizens, when they want to abolish that which all doctors of repute say is the real antidote to the' plague?
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 50, 1 March 1919, Page 6
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