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Show ROUNDUP OP ALIEN SUSPECTS IS UfE Mf Government Officials Putting Put-ting Into Effect the President's Pres-ident's Proclamation Against Germans. EXODUS BEGINS IN NATIONAL CAPITAL Authorities Handicapped by Inability to Proceed Against Austrians ; Rules Completed. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. A roundup of suspected Germans, mainly in seacoast and lake port cities, is in progress today under authority of President Wilson's new-proclamation new-proclamation forbidding" alien enemies within 100 yards of docks, requiring their registration and imposing other restrictions restric-tions on their movements. The intelligence bureaus of the army and navy have charge of making most arrests ar-rests of Germans - not evacuating the barrrj zones. The department of justice, will receive prompt reports and after al- j lowing for full hearing will determine j those to be interned permanently. I Only a small percentage of the half! million unnaturalized German men af- j fee ted by the president's proclamation will be arrested, officials explained in discrediting rumors of the arrest and im prisonment of many thousands. A few Germans left Washington today i in compliance with the president's order making a barred zone of the Dis-. Dis-. trict of Columbia, but the exodus attracted J little attention. ! Registration Rules Completed, Rules to govern registration of alien enemies were practically completed by Attorney At-torney General Gregory today and will be promulgated shortly. It was said unofficially unof-ficially that the attorney general might not exercise immediately the authority given by the proclamation to require Germans Ger-mans to report regularly to public officials. of-ficials. Within a few weeks the department of justice expects to extend the 1000-yard barred zone to a number of manufacturing plants and the result will be to throw some Germans out of employment, but no ; widespread disturbance in the industries : is expected. 1 Officials realize that most of the anti-: anti-: war activities in this country are carried ' on by. naturalized Germans or even mer-, mer-, cenary or misled Americans whom the , president's proclamation does not affect. Officials Handicapped. They are handicapped also by inability to take any general action against suspected sus-pected Austrians and other allies of Germany Ger-many and against German women, who in many cases are recognized as efficient gatherers of Information valuable to Germany. Ger-many. Washington police today were instructed to obtain from each German leaving the capital full information concerning where he expects to go and a report will be made to authorities of the locality to which he is destined. Germans also were ordered to report immediately to the United States marshal of the district to which he goes. Tomorrow is the last day transient Germans Ger-mans will be allowed to be In the District of Columbia, although an extension of time until December 15 has been allowed for those who were living here since April 6. INDICTMENTS ARE RETURNED AGAINST 25 ALLEGED I. W. W. FRFSNO. Cal., Nov. 20. Indictments rharging sedition and conspiracy to defeat de-feat the war measures of the United Slates were returned here tonight by the federal grand Jury against twenty-five alleged members of the Industrial Workers Work-ers of the World. Fifteen of the men are in Jail here, five have been sent to Chicago for trial on previous federal indictments in-dictments and bench warrants have been issued by United States District Judge B. F. Bledsoe for the remaining five. One of the fifteen men indicted, and in jail here is Walter Fred Idttle. member of the general executive board of the Industrial In-dustrial Workers of the World and brother of Frank little, an executive officer of-ficer of the organization, who was lynched at Putre last summer. The indictments specifically accuse the t wen ty-live men of interfering with the operations of the selective draft act by concealing men subject to Its provisions; with setting tire to crops and with conspiracy con-spiracy to hamper manufacture of munitions muni-tions and supplies for war in order to embarrass the Government. . W. W. AGITATORS IN MIDDLE WEST UNDER ARREST KANSAS CTTV, Nov. CO. Federal authorities au-thorities began a roundup of T. W. W. agitators in "ihe middle wefct today. Official Of-ficial reports have been received here from the only rn Id. that at Augusta, Kan., whTo twenty-two were arrested, but unofficial reports indicate numerous other arrests in the El Dorado and Augusta Au-gusta oil districts, considered the focal points of agitation that led to the placing plac-ing of armed guards about oil properties. proper-ties. Federal officers have intimated the total to-tal of arrests may run into the hundreds. In preparat ion for t he roundup, Oscar Son mi t z, a special agMit of the department depart-ment of justice in Kansas City, was Pent to An trust a to construct a large "bull pen"' in which to house the prisoners, and he reported the structure was readv today. Fvery ma n arrested will be examined ex-amined to determine whether he evaded the draft regulat Ion, it is said, while those who can show thev are not members mem-bers of the I. W. W. will be released. Tho;e who cannot rhow they have business busi-ness in the oil fjtdds will be handled by UAal or state authorities, while any con- t Continue a on Pace Twro ALIEN SUSPECTS ARE BEING fiUDEO OP (Continued from Page One.) si dered dangerous will be dealt with by the government, ihe officers slated. The Augusta raid was made upon a tent, headquarters of the orgn nlzat ion in that sect ton, it is alleged. M urh II tern -ture containing a nt i-war propaganda was confisca ted and several leaders are said to have been among the men arrested. ar-rested. The activities of the T. W. W. In the oil fields of Kansas have, been under observation obser-vation by department of Justice investigators investi-gators for several wocks. The whipping of I. W. W. members at Tulsa, Okla., augmented th1 I. W. W. forces from Oklahoma Ok-lahoma and stioknrs bearing the plcturo of an angry black cat a nd the word "Sabotage" appeared. This was followed fol-lowed by several mysterious fires and the placing of the a rmd guards. Th" Kansas and Oklahoma oil fields are coi, trolled largely by the same interests, and reports spread that the T. V. W. agitators agita-tors planned to avenge the Tulsa whi pings In the Kansas fields. |
