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of the Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Defence Association., from

which you will see that he makes the extraordinary state- ment that " the Government were at last realising that the effort to prohibit the sale of liquor was a-pro-German effort, and, as the result of the Russian experience in the prohibition of vodka and other intoxicants, they were realising that in Great Britain and Ireland the same movement was being made to rouse the ire or the democracy not to help the war, but to retard it." I do not think that such a statement should be allowed to pass unchallenged, and I have no doubt the matter is being taken up by the supporters of the " Strength of Britain " movement.—I am,

Sir, &c., SUPPORTER Or " BREAD VERSUS BEER."