Servicemen And Women Drinking Liquor

(Original Caption) 5/14/45-Halifax, Nova Scotia: Scenes like this, showing servicemen and women drinking liquour by the carton in vacant lots of the city, were the rule in Halifax on V-E day. Authorities are still trying to count up the damage done by celebrating rioters who broke into liquor stores and helped themselves to the stock. Latest figure of the damage is put as $5,000,000 and two lives lost. Leaves granted to some 8,000 naval personnel in hte area for V-E day is blamed for the Ruckus.
(Original Caption) 5/14/45-Halifax, Nova Scotia: Scenes like this, showing servicemen and women drinking liquour by the carton in vacant lots of the city, were the rule in Halifax on V-E day. Authorities are still trying to count up the damage done by celebrating rioters who broke into liquor stores and helped themselves to the stock. Latest figure of the damage is put as $5,000,000 and two lives lost. Leaves granted to some 8,000 naval personnel in hte area for V-E day is blamed for the Ruckus.
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May 14, 1945
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