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Show SWEDISH PEOPLE ARE TORN WITH I ANXIETY OVER SONS IN AMERICA I 1 STOCKHOLM, Sept- 22. Consider-' able agitation is displayed here because be-cause of tho report that the United States contemplates subjecting to the draft alien .residents of a military age unless they leave the country within three "months. The American legation has received many telephonic inquiries from agitated parents, some of whom are of pronounced Germjin sympathies, asking whether their sons now in America Am-erica would be forced to fight against Germany. A pro-German newspaper- this afternoon aft-ernoon printed a strong protest against the proposed draft, maintaining that at least 100.000 Swedes of a military age are in the United States and that only a small proportion of them could return re-turn to their home country under the present steamship arrangements. Tho operations of the draft law have had the further effect of checking Scandinavian Scandin-avian emigration to the United States, a certain proportion of the departures having been inspired by a desire to avoid compulsory service. .fin |