WELCOMES BRIAND PLEDGE.
JEAN FINOT COMMENTS ON INTERDICTION OF SALE OF ALOOHOL. PARIS, December 19. Jean Fiiiot, editor of Le Revhe, who for two years has carried on a campaign for the suppression of the use oi alcohol m France, warmly welcomed Premier Briands pledge to forbid the use of spirits. • "Tlie Government," he said, "has taken a ioncf time to give its promise. The realisation is not yet reached, but we have obtained the interdiction of the 59.10 of alcohol to women, minors and I mobilised men, who".', .form eight-tenths of .the population. Our programme goes further. Truth is now on the march and nothing can stop it." *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14194, 11 January 1917, Page 6
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109WELCOMES BRIAND PLEDGE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14194, 11 January 1917, Page 6
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