Foreign News: Prohibition

Lady Astor’s bill (prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors to anyone under the age of 18 years) received the King’s signature and became the law of the land. Its passage was hindered, rather than helped, by Lady Astor’s undignified antics in support of it; but Sir Frederick Banbury’s senile tactics of obstruction fairly counter balanced the injudicious advocacy. The bill is a common-sense measure designed to do away with children’s hanging about public-houses. It is not known whether it will affect the small-beer retailed to Eton and Harrow public school boys.