DRINKING SPOILS SHOOTING.
A regimental canteen is surely a strange place to give a temperance address, but lately the men of the Yorkshire Militia Regiment were assembled to hear an address by Surgeon-general G. J. H. Evans, who was principal medical officer in the southern command. Tracing tho evolution of temperance in the army from its earliest beginnings and the effects of alcohol on the system, he said that the extreme accuracy of long-distance rifles and guns demanded a sober man to be behind them. English soldiers should he as sober as the Japanese. He saw in Moscow that every other house was a public-house, and, knowing the extreme sobriety of the Japanese, he did not wonder that the Russians were beaten by them. " The Canadians," he asserted, "look upon us as a drunken race. It is not an uncommon thing to see on a notice board for men wanted, 'No English need apply.' The King recently has given an excellent example by 6aying that his health can be drunk ju«t as well in water as in anything else. We do not want you to rush to take any pledge on the spur of the moment, but to think it out quietly, and to weigh up the advantages of temperance to you and to the army," said tho Surgeongeneral in conclusion.— Light, September 15, 1906.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 82
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