WET CANTEENS
Sir.—You have published several replies to the statement by "Facts" that drinkers drop out first in the long route marches. They question the statement and express their opinions to the contrary. Will you kindly grant space for the opinion of Sir Frederick Treves, surgeon to King Edward VII. It is to the point. He states: "No man dreams of going into training and taking alcohol. He must reach the acme of physical perfection, and that must 1:..< without alcohol. . . . It is also a curious fact that troops cannot work or march on alcohol. I was with the relief column that marched on to Ladvsmith, and, "of course, it was an exceedingly trying time, apart from the heat « ? the weather. Jii that column of some 30,000 men the first who dropped out were not the tall men, or the short men, or tho big men, or the little men, but the drinkers, as clearly as if they had been labelled." t J. A. Hughes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 15
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165WET CANTEENS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 15
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