_Record of Devon Assizes, Exeter, February 2, 1917_ An officer was left in charge of a British ship. Mad with drink, he went among the men and shot one dead. He is now in an asylum. _Case reported to the Admiralty_ The crew of a Dutch ship arriving in the Tyne was placed under a naval guard after a drunken riot in which three were killed. _Facts in “Daily News,” September 14, 1915_ The captain of a Norwegian barque mysteriously disappeared, and the vessel arrived in port from the North Sea. The mate, who had been drinking heavily, was seen, with a hammer in his hand, with the captain in a corner, bleeding from wounds about the head. _Facts in “Daily News,” April 8, 1916_ A seaman ashore in Glasgow, “wild with drink and passion,” was terribly wounded in a quarrel in a public-house, and died the same night. A youth of 19 was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. _Records of Edinburgh High Court, Dec. 1916_ A barge-loader at West India Docks died from alcohol, and three other men were removed in an ambulance after drinking rum. _Facts in “Daily Chronicle,” May 9, 1916_ Orders were given on a steamer for the boats to be swung out in readiness for submarines. The first and second officer, having been drinking, could not do their duty. _Records of Liverpool Marine Board, April 13, 1917_ The jury returned a verdict of murder against a youth of 19 who, after drinking one night, went on to his ship and killed the second officer. _Records of Hull Coroner, April 24, 1917_ A drunken captain in command of a drifter landed with an armed party on the Isle of Man. He posted the men on the quay, and gave them orders to allow no one to pass. Declaring he would shoot every person who came within reach, he fired twice, and threatened to kill two police officers. _Facts in “Times,” October 6, 1916_ Such is the work of drink wherever it finds a soldier to entrap—the drink the Navy carries free from Southampton to the trenches; and from America comes the news, as this page is being written, that the Army and the Navy of our Western Ally, like the Army and the Navy of our Eastern Ally, are to be under Total Prohibition. Will some Member of Parliament please ask =how much bread is destroyed each week to make beer for German internment camps in this country?= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Drink and the Red Cross