DRINK AND MUNITIONS.
rT. ras Ranoa or ass "SrsorAroan Sre.,—Some weeks ago we were told by Mr. Lloyd George that drink was our worst foe, and mainly reepousible for the criminal shortage of ammunition at the front. No one doubts the truth of the first part of the statement as regards a minority of the workers. Drastic legislation to affect good and bad alike WY proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and rejected by the nation. My excuse for writing is that I have nowhere seen the following suggestion made. Is it quite impossible to punish the guilty by passing a short Act abolishing fines for drunkenness and making imprisonment obligatory for a seoond offence P Or, as happened at Havre the other day, to sentence the offender to a period of hard labour under martial 14S0 at
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