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Show CHANGE REGULATION OF SERVING LIQUOR WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. War department de-partment regulations have been so amended as to permit officers and men of the army to be served with alcoholic liQuors in the homes of their relatives or friends outside of the camp zones. Toe chanse was made at the suggestion of Chairman Fosdick of the commission on training camp activities, while considering consider-ing a general change in the prohibition zor.e systems for the camps. Changes were considered when the war college found that at one camp, the five-mile five-mile zone operated to close saloons on one side, while saloons on another' side ( remained open though only a half mile away because they were within the corporate cor-porate limits of a munie'.paiuy. t The war college took the view that a uniform ror.e system should bo adopted irrespectively of the proximity of towns, (but the training camp commission dis-' dis-' agreed with this view and the old zone 1 system was retained, l |