PROHIBITION—A VOICE FROM THE FRONT.
[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—I have just read in your issue of January 27th a letter signed by " An Officer on Active Service in France " under the above heading. His recommendation is summed up in the words : " Let us adopt the same principle over the drink question as we are doing out here." But he does not specify what that principle is. As far as we officers are concerned, there are no " principles " involved. Upon the sideboard of the mess where I am writing this there is at this moment an array of whisky, gin, cherry whisky, orange bitters, and French and Italian vermouth. There was a great outcry a week or so ago when the E.F.C. ran short of whisky, and one heard everywhere the joking grouse : " We can't win the war without whisky." I think that we fail to enter fhb) the heart of the matter as much out here as they do at home. I believe that we should all be the better for absolute Prohibition.
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