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Show SOLDIERS ENTER BATTLE DRUNK Charged That Men Are Sent Into Battle While Intoxicated. New York. Soldiers in the European Euro-pean war must be made drunk before they will obey their officers' demands for bayonet charges, was the amazing statement made by Jane Addams during dur-ing a discussion of her experiences in the warring European countries Friday Fri-day night in Carnegie hall. Germans, French and English were specifically mentioned by her in this conection. "Young men in these countries say,' 'Ah, the bayonet charge that is what we dread.' "You know they make their men drunk before they can get them to charge," she continued. "They give them beer in Germany, rum in the English army and absinthe in the French. They have to give them the dope, so to speak, before a bayonet charge is possible." |