DRINKING SPOILS SHOOTING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 13

DRINKING SPOILS SHOOTING.

The canteen of a Milita regiment is a strange place for a temperance lecture, but such was the chosen place in the Tyneraouth training camp of the YoVkshire Royal Garrison Artillery by Surgeongeneral G. J. H. Evatt, who was principal medical officer in the southern command. Tracing the evolution-, of temperance in the a.rmy from its earliest "beginnings, and the effects of alcohol on the system, be said that the extreme accuracy of longdistance rifles and guns demanded a sober man to be behind them. English soldiers should be as sober as the Hesaw in Moscow that every_otlier house was a. publichouse, - and v^ knowing the extreme

sobriety of the Japanese, he did not wonder that the Russians were beaten by them. " The Canadians, 7 ' he asserted, " look upon us as a" drunken race. It is not an uncommon thing io see on a notice board for men wanted — ' No English need apply.' ' The'^-Kina;'' recently. haß^iveij' aoti.-exc€llr«.'jt r example by sayin'g~ttha*;"hia'"healbh-;c^n-, kp»] drunk just aj Jyc.ll in jvjatei^ as *in- v anyf.k> g-| else." "We do'- r nOt~\v&ttt r ld§u\lto JhiabNto^ take any pledge -on tHe spur of "tne-ingm.entiji but to think it out" quietly^find^^^^^^lW up the advantages '■of^6iinpeTa*ffle* T TO /;^ou' I and to the army,"s-Said!.; the"-VSu!f-geqn-' j general in conclusion.-" _"v^-' " ~-'~^--*A- — ~-4