A Dublin publichouse was found full of girls and soldiers, all drunk. Three drunken girls were taken away by six soldiers.
Facts in “Irish Times,” April 20, 1916
In half an hour 367 girls entered Birmingham publichouses, scores under 18. Stout and beer were chiefly drunk, but whisky and water also, and some port wine. Ten young girls were quite drunk.
Facts in “Birmingham Daily Post”
Will some Member of Parliament please ask,
in view of the fact that American soldiers are not to touch alcohol, what arrangements the Government proposes to make for them in this country?
Back to the Homeland
Everywhere we hope and pray for peace, for the day when the men will come home; but we may dread the day if the men come home to drink and its temptations. The sudden release of millions of men, the certain reaction after the terrible stress of these three years, is fearful to contemplate with the door of the tap-room open. There would be an end of civilization itself for days and weeks and months, and for many a town at home the Peace would be worse than the War.
We owe it to these men to listen to the warning of the Prison Commissioners who printed these words in their report last year: