{"id":10206,"date":"2014-12-05T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2014-12-05T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:00:51","slug":"beer-finally-allowed-for-rmrs-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/beer-finally-allowed-for-rmrs-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer finally allowed for RMR&#039;s in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saturday, December 5, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cRoute march in morning. Rain in afternoon\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/05-Dec-14.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10126 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/05-Dec-14-300x203.png\" alt=\"05 Dec 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u201cOttawa, Nov. 29.\u00a0 \u2013 A Government statement issued yesterday in regard to the wet canteen which is permitted by the War Office in the Canadian camp at Salisbury draws attention to the fact that the Canadian Government and the Canadian Department of Militia has no direct control over the camp regulations in England, which are under the jurisdiction of the War Office.\u00a0 It is noted that the Canadian Government can, of course, make representations to the War Office, and these representations would undoubtedly receive careful and respectful consideration.\u00a0 The Government has, however, been assured that the reported troubles in regard to drinking among the soldiers came from the purchase of liquor in neighbouring towns and villages when the men obtained leave of absence.<\/p>\n<p>After careful consideration, General Alderson determined that it would be better to have a regulated wet canteen, at which beer might be sold at certain hours and under careful supervision.\u00a0 These regulations permit such canteens to be opened for one hour at noon and for three hours in the evening.\u00a0 Beer only is sold, and non-commissioned officers are always on duty.\u00a0 The Government has now been assured that the trouble in the neighbouring villages, which occasioned much concern at first, has practically ceased since the opening of these regulated and supervised canteens.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Dec 5, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCamp Regulations Under War Office,\u201d <em>The Globe(1844-1936),<\/em>Toronto, Ontario, Monday, November 30, 1914,\u00a0 pg. 9, col. 2.<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, December 5, 1914 In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cRoute march in morning. Rain in afternoon\u201d \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}