Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 9 | Americans will not be Forced into Army

AMERICANS WILL NOT BE FORCED INTO ARMY AMSTERDAM. Oct. 6. A dispatch received here from Berlin says that during a discussion in the rekhstag on eompulsorv service for aliens, Colonel Mnrnuar.wt said that persons without nationalitv would be called for service onlv if thev settled for good in (-or-manv. There was no question, he added, of calling upon Americans who had lo-d their nationality owing to the impossibility of obtaining exte.ns.ons to .their passports. A representative ot the ministry of foreign affairs then Mated that "in certain cases American would have to prove they really were Americans. . . V resolution introduced by a Social Democratic member providing that tor-mer tor-mer subjects of enemv states who had lost their nationality without acquiring German nationality should be exempt from military service was adopted by a large majority.