The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-12
HAVE ONE ON MEL BARRED BY ROYAL
 ENGLISH DEGREES
No More Treating Says King Through Privy Council at
 Buckingham Palace.

London. Oct. 12@sAt a meeting of the Prfvy Council at Buck1ngham Palace today the King signed an orr der applying the regulations respect Ina the sale of liquor in the eiStricts aK the Metropolitan area 2
 r41fs rather cryptic announLe1nent, appearfng recently, in black faced. type in London papers nealAt that fFae long expected t-no-treatiTsg orr der is now in operation thrqaghout the greater city and that a. great change must be made in tha social habits of the people,
 Though designed mainly to cheek fha custom of providing free liquors to soldiers from the front-esl ecial1y those who are about to depart again for the trenchesHthe order nesserthe less is applicable to everybodE, and It's violation will bring upon tfle of ferdor heavy fine Or imprisq ament, or both Hereafter except zn the privacy of a home, the London1sr may not share bottle or half bottte with m friend There is but one excep-s ton, and that is at meal times Then a host may provide liquor 5ut. in all saloons, hotels and clugs the words, What will you hnye s'' are affsctad. ssad S4s and members are asking many questions. For example,
 Can members wager whisky and sodas on a. card garne2
 can drinks be ordered to zeal a compact, or for a toast?
 Is an officer leaving for the front to De denied parting drink w.Jh his xellowa2
 Can 2 glass accidentany nnset be red11ed ?
 Saloon keepers are very zao1eful over the outlook They say that, with
 
 phere of the saloon will Joe ch5nged- Few men, it, isSurged, like to drink alone, and a tremendous sIugAp in trade Is predicted
 what constitutes a meal with which one man may buy drfEk for his friend will doubtless have to be defined by the. courts Whether meal VIII consist of the antis uated aandwfch so familiar in the <gnited States remains to be seen Thsre is Of course the patent subterfE fe by which one man may give the 3srson he wishe9 to treat the amount re- auired before they enter the ss loon; but this would be cumbersome. com xnercia1 and hardly popular
 Police regulations, it is saisA. on good authority, are about to s5e is- sued, closing all night clubs in Lon don, during the entire period ef the war If this reform takes plase, it
 
 by military authorities that the might club eviTs has turned what oufxpt to be a period of rest and recupeaat1on for officers on leave from the sront, Into a prolonged debauch 4shich leaves the men in a worse consdtion than when they came across froEa the trenches It is commonly I1nowr~ that in most of the night clubs, evasion of the 10 o'clock law has been de- ve1oped to a fine art and that drinks can be easily obtained at all hours of the day and night
 ssI am in favor of closing down all night clubs for the duration of the war;" said Lord AthIunIey, provost marshall Naturally enough in our supervision. we rarely detect any thing. We must visit them in uni form, and it is almost impossible to effect a real surprise. As for the dis reputable night clubs, they have about an army of scouts. They watch and report our movements and a club almost invariably knows in advance when we may be expected.
 They all look as innocent as tame 1 doves when we appear We have no l doubt in our minds that liquor is ob- | tainable at many night clubs, and that ] is quite another matter from going l into a witness box and swearing to | specific instancesA While we are giyen supervision of these places, we [ lave no powers to do anything ex- cept through the courts. The only | satisfactory remedy is to close them all down as long as the war Iasts.''