Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 2 | Enemies are Dreilling in Connecticut

ENEMIES ARE DRILLING IN CONNECTICUT HARTFORD, Conn., March 22. Governor Gov-ernor Holcomb tonight amplified his statement made yesterday that men hostile hos-tile to this country were engaged in military drilling nightly in Connecticut. "I believe it to be a fact," said the governor, "that here in Hartford and other cities there is drilling going on by organizations of men born under foreign for-eign flags. Many of these drilling bodies are not Germans. That is not the point. The point is that German agents axe working on their minds. "I know it to be a fact that a Polish organization in a city not far from Hartford Hart-ford is already split because German agents have told the men they ought never to resist Germany, because Germany Ger-many has been a better friend to Poland than Russia. I have -heard that similar arguments are being made to other organizations or-ganizations of foreign-born men. This is an unhealthy, if not an actually perilous, peril-ous, state of affairs." : The governor said he understood that some of the drilling organizations were , in possession of arms. vjhl aie mrv aiming ior, anyway r he continued. "That they are not openly 1 sympathetic to Germany or hostile to the United States is unimportant. If they i want to drill or handle arms, let them 1 j join the organized militia, the home guard or the United States army."