Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — STOP WAR DRAFT “DOPING” [ARTICLE]

STOP WAR DRAFT “DOPING”

British Government to Punish Men Who Drug Themselves to Escape Army Service.

London. —It will now be an offense to injure oneself in order to escape military service. An amendment has been made to the defense of the realm regulations, stating that any man in the reserve forces who,' when ordered to report for medical examination, feigns any disease or infirmity shall be guilty of an offense. 4 * ' The amendment in effect states that if a man produces any disease or ihflrmity or maims or injures himself, or takes any drug likely to render him temporarily or permanently unfit for military service, he is gbilty of an offense.