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Show EH MAY VtSTT THEIR ITIVE LID Believed Imperial Government Will Accept Proposal Modifying Modi-fying Restrictions. Special Cable to Tho Tribune. BERLIN". Juno 1 S. Stringent regulations regula-tions now preventing thousands of Germans Ger-mans living abroad from vlslltiig tho fatherland fa-therland may bo abrogated, if tho government gov-ernment approves a plan which It Is considering. con-sidering. Tho proposal, which Is to lift. I ho ban against former German subjects who emigrated without performing military mili-tary service, emanated from German circles In the United Stales and took form in a petition recently framed by Professor Ernest IUchard of Columbia university, Now York, on behalf of leading lead-ing Gorman societies. Their petition has been laid boforo tho Gorman chancellor. While the government has not yet coine to any decision, the proposal is known to be receiving friendly consideration. consider-ation. It Is commented on approvingly even in extroine coitscrvatlvo quarters, whoro objections to It would most naturally nat-urally be expected It Is urged that merely the commercial advantage to be expected from permitting German-Americans of wealth to revisit the fatherland would bo groat and tho moral effect of a measure proomllng more cordial relations rela-tions with America, whoro tho German clement Is so largo and Influential is an oven moro important consideration. Should It be decided to relax tho present pres-ent regulations, a distinction will bo made between Germans who evaded service and those who deserted while ac-lually ac-lually under arms. Tho latter will not be admitted under any circumstances. Thus an Investigation would bo necessary In each case, but It Is thought this difficulty diffi-culty could bo easily surmounted. |