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Show Tdeportation MAY v BE LoTOF ALIENS Teutons at Fort War Prison Likely to Be Sent to Native Lands. Legislation Covering Cases Now Being Considered at Washington. Deportation. This is the fate that awaits all interned German and Austrian enemy aliens at the Fort Douglas war prison camp and other war prison camps of tho United States who are known to have actively promoted the cause of the enemy in this country when they were at liberty. Information In-formation to this effect has been weut out from the department, of justictWi Washington to representatives of tlicV department in various sections of the country. " It is learned that there is now being prepared for presentat ion to eo tigress a special act .providing for the deportation of such enemy aliens and that this law will carry with it a penalty of fivo years' imprisonment for any deported enemy alien who returns, tn this country after he has been deported. The object of the law is to get rid of the undesirable. a liens and to keep them out of United States, it is stated. Just how many men there are at the Third war prison camp at Fort Douglns who come under this proposed law is now known, but it is understood that there is quite a number. To determine how many should be deported will necessitate ne-cessitate a checking of the individual cases and the evidence against the men. No Action Yet Taken. It is announced that no action will be taken before the signing of peace terms, but that the new law is to be passed and put into operation before thisk time, so that before any interned prisoners arc released those subject to deportation under the terms of the not will be where they can be handled without with-out trouble. Official announcement of this policy is expected from Washington immediately upon the signing of peace terms in Lurope. At the same time the government is taking steps to prevent the immigration to this country of radicals after the war by passage of a new Immigration law, which President Wilson approved October Octo-ber 16. The new law, which confers increased power upon the department of labor, excludes ex-cludes aliens: Who are anarchistic. 1 Who believe in or advocate 'the overthrow over-throw by force or violence of the government gov-ernment of the United States or of all forms of law. Who disbelieve in or are opposed to all organized government and who teach such disbelief. i Who advocate thn duty, necessity r propriety of the unlawful assaulting o killing of any officer or officers, either , of specific individuals or of officers gen- orally of any organized government. Who advocate or teach the unlawful destruction of property. ( May Be Deported. The pew law provides that, irrespective irrespec-tive of the time of entry of an alien into this country, he may be deported If h' has acquired such beliefs since confer here. The work of the department of V. bor has been limited in this regard in the past because the law provided that aliens could not be deported after a certain cer-tain period of residence here. The deportation proposition does not apply to all enemy aliens, it is announced, an-nounced, but only to those who are known to have been actively in support of the enemy during the. war. Others, it is understood, are to be given opportunity oppor-tunity to become citizens, provided they desire citizenship and examination of their records shows that they might make the proper sort of citizens. Two Hundred Here. In the local war prison camp there are nearly 'J00 enemy aliens who have their I first citizenship papers, and many ot these, it is expected, will be given opportunity op-portunity to complete their citizenship proceedings, provided they were not ac- lively aiding the enemy during the war and provided investigation of their cases shows that they -would make prbper citizens. During the period of the war all naturalization nat-uralization proceedings for enemy aliens was suspended and no citizen of an enemy en-emy country could apply for citizenship. Announcement has just been made from Washington to Paul Armstrong, naturalization natural-ization examiner at Denver for this district, dis-trict, that this ban has been lifted and that now the way is open for enemy aliens to apply for citizenship and fnr those who had taken out their first papers pa-pers to proceed with their naturalization. |