The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1885-06-26 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE DRINK QUESTION ABROAD. frequeidly the first claim mit in by the distressed relatives pnived unfounded. There were ino extrava. .1. Parliamentary latper jilt published nontains gant demonstrations of grwf, bat the sahrbied sobbing repels ft.. her Majt.yh diplomatic and consular of the children, the blank dismay depicted on the °Meern olen the ...midi. of intoxicating limean fat, of the woinen, and the settled mokinclroly abroad. Unveil-General Oppenheimer t,liinatits, in the men, told how deeply they felt their bereave. with riganl liermany, that la the dintillerii4l4 the ment. The closest inspection was necessary, the dead EmPire 1n73 and lain at least 200,000,00 n litres men'n heads being raised by a kindly collier, while a pure. alcohol were produced for mere consumption— sympathising colleague threw the rays of a safety or, 11l rallnd numberg, nix lit.es per head of the lamp upon the tipturind features, popidation. Reckoning the male population over 13 After two oo'cloa tho the exploring Yearn of age 01 10 per c,•01., this would give a yearly ',arty met with no Tlll..onntl of it was emeanniPthon 01 111 litres of pure alcohol per head, constantly being changed, it being impossible for the 011,1w.s of ordinary schnaps. By the year IMO the awn to rellllia for any great length of time in the quitetitY bad Mai-eased to 71 litres ytarly mwr heat workings. Every elfort was made to Penetrate to The consumption of goirit in North liermany nnnry distant part, alai W.IIIC ..11C/WWI was gained in the great ; mid out of a yearly avomige .11 1,130 suicides direction of the Doe and Five Quarters. The in Pr,mtia f"t fivY.Yeat'i 01411w,e Inwtt dne In, diltTr,nellerlVlllo, however, continued unapproacluthle. unmade& and delirium tremens. The percentage of By this time the belief became prevalent that the numides among males dim to alo duel wax 1910, whe,.,. men who worked in the two fird.nanitsl mines had e. among females it haa ettlY 1n,,. With regard to and tha thv 11.dios of Much as hold,.vl fatal accident, also, 11 111IWO number of them were in them had lawn removed, and the .thorities attributable to drunkenness. Similar statistics WWI reluctantly came to, the 01.111:111,1i. that those in the furnished in connection with the Lunatic .h 1h,.,,.. Tnnicherlwone were beyond the neonl nf atsi,,t- Taking 41100 cases yearly tremorf the chneral thr, nw„„ n„„ I oon,e Hospitals for dipwinnotia, ii?Oeasia of delirium urine. worse, and the explorera worked with difficulty ie the Lunatic on 7 private dile...nave, ,icalev, and 311 drunkards amidentally exit. ..ft, and ~.,nl,l, 1,, re enter upon their clutie.. thew is a total id 5,212 casen yearly od in “hi„ t,..ike f.oal form. The PrllW.illlll.ltatee alone show.l 1,021 The last batch of reweimrs went down ,m.tt and 95 women tnatial parly for dehruinitreniens. the MOW nhortlvlwf..mfoor o'clock. it was copitsised It appears that 141,111.1entim ol antfering fey., of 30 men, and was Joined 11 11,,' ',attn. by Donorge alcohol were in the loth. of life- that in, between 211 Hickson, nlernoir who, throughout the daYdispland and 50 yeamof age. In the kingdout Pramia, in 4eot ..nrago .d the nolilowt heroism. Ili, IM2, the eatimated expenditure on dotespirits alone ww, .te 4.1„1a1w, n N 1,000,000 marks, while all the direct State taxes for the lanteni of the shaft and the ingine.h. one above. the "nate Petted 1..1,...,1 bet 1,0,000400 mark, Ile had ....west the lIIMe as early as four o'clock that Tt's lag the wind,' ',P.0..... tn.. Isn't, wine, and morning t le. WrIA in it when the explosion iro turnd, Them, it anotinmsltodkg,ooo,ouu marks, or mon. than and lie stedfantly refinud to leave it, declaring that 'h"th''' ol".a,,fi,,,llle'nl,a.rt I.yhla. Estlan't, In its mt.,. and stamp 1111W1W. Inc. In :Midi. and and see that tho.y were worked nropowly for the N.wwnY the connimilduat "Pird. lum t 0,,, Y 1.11.1.1101, reatmers and remelted. hig yearn past but in Denmark the evil id spirit-drinking has reached a terrible ',itch. After the party load been down the tinier a few minute, thoone Above were terrified to Awl,' that a '11!",..,..b.r drnhk"td. wt. have ...tinted change had mken place in the mimed theventihttion 140Yenrs too on, —the smoke coming lip the pit shaft and the air going thin, I whil'h mtmtig the titre... 111 Per omit. were who. is WWI, .4 drunkenness, mut adding to there In per of the finoper enter, Thin wan reganled In a certain outt. ameag Prisonera for other "Menet, tlnere indication that one of two things had taken plane— Kr.' t",tt, '1 71 lwr out!,, of all either that another explosion had nocurrod, or that thou! taken into ct.tody, for crime,. committed ,‘ under „,1 the influence of drint. In Holland the number of bed barn were excited an to, the eafety of hounen for the sale of drink was no less than th,ooo par,v. A gain and w,rwmn. In7S, so that ut pOpulatlon oof 4,00U,11110 there In the bottom of the "I twinning, Mit no, reply was hell, drink whoa, foe eVerY la) inlndntante, including woe., coming, although If Lekson had declared hin intention nnd ehthireth B"IP 1..". never denerting hin Post. Pen ier ventiliti„a .4 the community, the Loginlittute passed a restrietive neared le he reetond in the course of a few min., law ni Mal, with the result that in the course of will, After alson half an-hour it WAX determined to WIWI a I,the