19 MAY 1917, Page 11

THE ALBERT HALL MEETING.

tTo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] have pleasure in enclosing copy of the two resolution.; to be moved at the meeting at the Albert Hall next Saturday

"That, in order to avert the danger of famine, with the consequent risk of a premature and disastrous peace, this meeting calls upon the -Government to prohibit forthwith the manufacture and sale of alcohol during the war and the period of demobiliza- tion, and thus immediately save the food of several millions of persons, now being continuously destroyed by the brewers and distillers."

" That in view of the King's Proclamation, impressing upon

his people the necessity of saving grain, this meeting regrets that the nation did not endorse the King's action, which included War Prohibition in the Royal Palaces, and calls upon all loyal subjects throughout the Empire to follow His Majesty."