IN GERMANY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 3

IN GERMANY.

MANITORA AND PROHIBITION

IMSFEUENDUM NEXT MONDAY

TREMENDOUS INT_.ItEST IN THl<. CAMPAIGN**.

Ottawa. March <>. The reloreiidiiiii on Uie prohibition issue in Manitoba has hcen fixed for the 13th inst. Tremendous interest is being taken in Ihe campaign, which is being fought on tion -partisan lines. Crowds of orators have been imported from other provinces and the United States. . The liquor interests are relying mainly upon a deluge of posters. The bulk of tbe daily newspapers support closing the burs, and the majority are refusing to accept liquor party advertisements. The women's vole will not. he operative until the new rolls are compiled, which will not he in .time for the referendum. A simple niajoi'ilv will snllice t" carry total prohibit ion.' which would become effective on May 31. Tom. pcrance advocates are hopeful of victory. Tlie hotel iiiteresls. while hopeful that the measure will be defe.-iled. have taken stepx to comply with the strict letter of the law. in the case of eventualities, renting warehouses outside tho boundaries, lo which their stocks (.an be removed and from which they can be dispensed.