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Show 1 1 FIRST 0 F LAW Department of -Justice It Well Prepared Against1 . Uprising on Army Registration Reg-istration Day, June 5 By International Nawa Borviaa. WASHINGTON, June 2. Federal and local authorities- throughout the country tonight to-night were waiting for word from Washington to begin a aeries of raids that tha department of Juetlea believes be-lieves will break tha backbone of tha antlregtstry propaganda. These raJda are expected tomorrow end Monday. They will eieaa out the headquarters and distributing acsnciee of the plotters. They are timed to let tha blow (all Just before registration day. - Thia plaa of the federal authorities baa two objects. Tha first Is to break up the propaganda by a general round-, up of Its leading advocates. The eeo- I ond Is to have ringleadera of the i anarchist and radical nonregistration! groups In Jail on registration day. ao that they may not Incite trouble around tha booths. Tho department of Juatios Is prepared pre-pared for anything'phort- of an armed uprising on Tuesday when the booths open. Rioting will ba dealt with by the local police and eufficlent armed guards will he ststloned at each registration regis-tration place to protect tho officials and the men who register. Attorney General Gregory today made the government's reply to the pacifists and propagandists who hsvs preached "better to rot In Jail In the good old United Btatea than In tha trenches of Rurope." "It hss come to the notice of Ihe department." de-partment." said Mr. Gregory, "that certain disloyal cltlxens. who are tbemeelvea beyoad Ihe conscription aa;e. 'are sua re tins; to tbe youna: me a of the country that It la better to suffer suf-fer Imprisonment under tbe terms of the conscription act than to register wilh the likelihood of being- enlisted and compelled to nerve at the front. "Attention is called to the fact that under section ft of this act parties con- vlcted on the charge of evadinpr renis-! renis-! t rat ion are not only punished for tha crime committed, but are thereupon duly reaistered with all the liability for mllitady service resulting- therefrom." there-from." i. . The definite statement waa made today to-day that It Is the government's plan to draft the violators of the law first. They will be sent to the trenches with their sentences for falling to register hanging; over them. Arrsngementg were made with the Tnntlnudorpare U. S. FIRST (Continued from page 1.) war department today for the ose of national guard amen already mustered into the federal service for riot duty If necessary on Tassday. State and city polioe-wlll also cooperate with the federal fed-eral agents, aa will hundreds of vigilance vigi-lance committees, organised by patriotic pa-triotic cltlsens in all sections of ths country. Theee cltlsens already have ) prepared unofficial lists of ths man i who should resist er. They will see . thst all men liable come to the regis- i tratlon places. |