19 FEBRUARY 1916, Page 13

THE PROHIBITION MIRACLE IN RUSSIA.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I believe that your readers might be interested in the following. Mr. Ernest Gordon, author of The Anti-Alcohol Movement in Europe, visited recently the hospitals in Petrograd where all the soldiers are taken who go insane in that vast Northern Russian Army. Such hospitals were filled with men insane from alcohol in the Russo-Japanese War. In fourteen months only one soldier insane from alcohol has come out of that enormous Northern Russian Army. Pointing to the single record, the little nurse in charge looked up and said : ` The miracle—Prohibition."—I am, Sir, &c., 11 Mason Street, Cambridge, Mass. E. TILTON.