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Show I.-IREDERICK OEDERLIN, clunge d'affaires of Swiss legation in I Washington, who is hero on official j inspection trip of war prison camp, j ! ' i ' " ' '1 "- jf. : .". ' --',V v ' Is I S-V i i t ' V I I H. . ; , fH i - ' 1 t i ' K ' . 'l ' I - . . - - s, ' ,.,. jC j j ' s '? I 1 k 5) ' . li . ? 'll Is i n , OEDERLIN TO INSPECT GAMP M HUNS Swiss Charge, Peace Offer Intermediary, Now in Salt Lake. Frederick Oedcrlin, charge d'affaires of the Swiss legation in Washington, D. C, who played a prominent part during the war in transmitting peace notes between Ocrma.ny and President Wilson, is in Salt Iake. He has had charge of the affairs of Germany in the Lnttecl htates anti is making a tour of inspection of the B'niled States govern m.er.t's Avar prison camps. Ho is accompanied by Louis Henri Junod, Swiss consul of New York. The officials arrived in Salt Lake yesterday yes-terday afternoon from the east and will continue their journey to the coast after spending two days in inspecting the Fort Douglas prison camp. Their coming was not announced and their visit was a com-plplc com-plplc surprise to local government officials and war prison camp officers. Mr. Oederlin seemed lo be much amused when he was informed that Fricdrtch Fbert and his government in Germany had resigned. "It 'is impossible to predict what will develop from the present state of affairs in Germany." he said. "There seems to bo no 'man of the hour' just at this time. I can r?ht tell when the prisoners at Fort Doug' as will be released or what will be done with them. 1 am sure that nothing will be done until after the peace meet-ing'is meet-ing'is over. It will be decided there, 'The signing of the armistice came as a' grea t surprise in Washington, I assure as-sure you. No one seemed to expect the coming of peace for some time. It was quite interesting to be the intermediary between the two warring nations and it was interesting also to he in Washington Washing-ton during such stirring times. We will spend about two days in Salt Lake and will then continue our journey to the coast. We have had a rather delayed and long journey, but seem to have- fared all right despite (he fact that we left New 'ork on 'Friday the 13lh.' " Thirty per cent of the enemy aliens now interned at Fort Dougins will .be recommended recom-mended for parole, according to David Gershon, chief of the local office of the bureau of investigation, department of justice, and the work of investigating them, with a view to such i ecoir.menda-tion, ecoir.menda-tion, is. now under way. Others may be granted parole, if investigation warrants, while, tho others will be deported on report re-port of the immigration bureau. A great many of those now interned at Fort Douglas are Austrian?, who committed com-mitted no offense against tiie United States greater than to declare themselves opposed to fight in? with the French army while thi.ir brothers and other near relatives rela-tives were fighting with the Austrian army, said Mr. Gershon yesterday, and these will be recommended for parole. There i no question, according to jMr. Gershon, lhat all of the members of the Industrial Workers of the World, among those, interned, will he deported u nder the act of congress approved October It", 11)1$. There is a large number of this character, most of whom are known to the federal a tit hori ties. t'nder the new anarchist act. all aliens who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the Fnited States or of all forms of law. or who disbelieve in or are opposed to all organized forms of government, shall on the warrant of the secretary of labor, be deported to the country from whence they came. T'nrhr this classification all of the f. W. W.'s in the Fort Douglas prison ca mp are placed, and their deportation will be recommended as rapidly as the bureau of investigation, acting in eo-op-erntion with D. Arthur Plumley, United States immigration officer in Salt Lake, completes its labors. |