30,000 DRINK SHOPS IN PARIS.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 361, 9 April 1912, Page 2

30,000 DRINK SHOPS IN PARIS.

Fr some years past the increase of drink shops has been so appalling that the most eminent men m the country, of all parties, have devoted serious attention to the question of stemming the deadly tide of alcoholism. Recently the Senate passed a measure for the reductino of the number of drink shops, and it was understood that the Chamber of Deputies would adopt it without delay, m the higher interests of the nation. But yesterday (February 4), when the matter came before the House, the Deputies .adopting the views of M. Georges Berry, postponed the solution to the Greek Kalends by referring the Senatorial measure to a standing committee.

During the debate some astonishing statistics were quoted. M. Jules Siegfried mentioned that Paris has 30,000 public-houses, whereas London has 5,600, Chicago 5.700, Edinburgh 340, and Moscow ?44. — Paris correspondent ' Daily Chronicle.'