DRINKING IN RESTAURANTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14143, 21 July 1916, Page 5

DRINKING IN RESTAURANTS.

SOLDIERS' RESORTS

UNLICENSED LIQUOR SELLER.

IMPRISONED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Lomton, July 19

A French woman, a keeper of a restaurant in London, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment and thereafter to deportation for the unlicensed sale of liquor. . The. prosecution alleged that the. drunkenness among; soldiers was largely due to so-called restaurants which had been the resort of overseas soldiers for months.

& provost marshal found a numbeH of them helplessly' drunk on the

premises