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Show SOME BOTHERSOME QUESTIONS ARISE Put to Department of Justice Jus-tice on Registration of Enemy Aliens. tVASHINGTON, Feb. l.The department depart-ment of justice has received many requests re-quests for special rulings on the citizenship citizen-ship of aliens In preparing for the nation-wide registration of German enemy aliens net week. A special corps of lawyers has worked incessantly on the questions, which are increasing in number num-ber as the registration days draw near. A typical query came from a Norfolk, Va., man, who was born in Germany o? Austrian parents, and while a young child moved to Switzerland, where his mother ; married a Russian. Latr, he came to the j United Statrs, renounced his stepfather's ; name :mrl na tiona lity, and applied for I American ririznship pa tiers. He did not ! jtenorne fully naturalized before the war. The department in pondering his case. All unnaturalized German males above the a?e of 14, of whom about G00.0O are in tho United Sta tes, will he required to register between next Monday nnd Saturday Sat-urday with the police of cities above 0O0O population, and with postmasters of smaller communities or rural districts. There will be no charge except for the four copies of the photograph which the registmni must furnish. Tiie subjects of Austria-Hungary and women aro not compelled to register Men born in the UniTcl States of German parents, or fully nature lized here, need not register, but those who have taken out only their first papers will have to enroll. Former residents resi-dents of Alsace-Lorraine, born there after the German seizure in 1S71, are regarded as enemy aliens, even thouzh they are of Freivh descent and sympathies. The department of justice called attention atten-tion loiiay to the fact that Germans living liv-ing In a rural community, or a town of less than 5f00. but receiving mail from a larger city postoiflce, arc to bo registered by the postmaster of that office, and not by the polh-e. of the larger city. Special efforts are being made by the department of justice, by police and 'post-office 'post-office officials and others assisting in ihe registration to .eliminate any Mf-a that the registration implies any specific blamo on the particular German, official? offi-cial? are cautioned to be courtous to all applicants, and the, Germans are reminded remind-ed that in registering "they are giving proof of their peaceful dispositions and of their intention to conform to tiie laws of tho United States." |