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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14961, 8 January 1919, Page 2

A recent report of British experts favours absolute abstention from strong drink, but supports the use of ljght wines and liquors. Britain is charging Germany several million pounds,' for air raid 'd.-unascps. lof which interesting details may now [be; published (states a cablegram'to the [Melbourne "Herald"). A bomb from a Zeppelin set firo to a warehouse in Wood street, London.' and -desfc-'or^c' ; goods of the value of £500,000. 'An | aeroplane bomb of 6001b razed sis larcre! ; houses in Maida Vale, rendered 20 ! others uninhabitable, and damaged 400. .St. Paul's Cathedral and Waterloo-and Westminster Bridges were missed by a few yards. One bomb threw up an enormous mass of water and deluded Waterloo Bridge. Twenty-three 'incendiary bombs fell harmlessly in the . grouds of Woolwich" Arsenal. A bomb, dropped between tw s o trains1 at Liverpool Street Station, London, and destroyed both. . • '

Close on 10,000 workshops in Great Britain were engaged in the production, of munitions, of winch 5000 were con-trolled-and 1.30 were national factories. . A Wind girl of Burlington, N. J"., has graduated from tho State Normal School with high honours, and received an appointment as an instructor of the blind. So glowing hare been the reports cf the success of prohibition in Canada and America that numbers of Australians have wondered what really was the amount cf sly grog-selling and illicit liquor traffic which it produced in ohose eoujiivic.G. Zvlost prohibition . lecturers have b.;c::i silent on the noint. reports a, Melbourne paper, but Mr S. Manther, in tho. course of an address jn.t tue-Temperance Hall recently, said that fiitaoujih prohibition was an unqualified success,, there undoubtedly was an unduo amount of illicit traffic indulged in. Beer was smuggled into Toronto in motor cars and in trusses of hay, an&.ovon under the ladies' petticoats.. He . quoted the instance of a lady who entered the city in a cat. When searched she was found to have a string of bottles of champagne tied round her body. She was imprisoned, and, in addition, was fined £100 '