Manila, Jan, 19.
Army social circles wore badly upset here to-day by the publication of orders from the War Department in Washington, barring liquor from all Army posts and reservations in the Philippines. These orders are to become effective as from Februe ary 11.
B. Shearer without presee was revealed to-day at the conclusion of hearings in this connec tion.
"Authorities in charge of the i vestigation explained that it had been the purpose of President} Hoover, not to obtain a prosecution, but to protect the approaching London Five-Power Naval Limitation Conference against any secretly' financed "big Navy" propagandists. who might seek to operate in the fashion followed by Shearer in his efforts to frustrate the Geneva meeting.
Tt is now considered that Shearer and his fellow-propagandists have' been discredited and brought into the light of day so that there is small likelihood: that _anyone attempting to follow the Shearer
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