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Show ILL mIRlIlOu 1U UL lilylilinlLLy Failure of Owners to Comply With U. S. Order to Be Punished. LICENSES SUSPENDED Property Will Be Confiscated If Found Operating in Defiance De-fiance of Law. WASHINGTON, April 16. All wireless wire-less telegraph stations not operated by the government were ordered dismantled disman-tled during the war today by direction direc-tion of the secretary of the navy. Failure Fail-ure of owners to comply with the order or-der will result in confiscation of the quipment. The action was taken under the executive ex-ecutive order recently issued by President Pres-ident Wilson directing that tho navy department take over all radio stations. sta-tions. Tho department's statement says: "All licenses for radio stations on sh,ore are suspended for tho duration of the war. The secretary of the navy has directed that during the war all radio sending and receiving stations, other than those operated by tho United Unit-ed States government, bo closed. A station is considered closed only when its antennae Is lowered, coiled and sealed; ground connection broken and the apparatus dismantled and packed away. It iB incumbent upon the owners own-ers themselves to close their stations. Failure to close stations will result in its apparatus being confiscated by the government. The owners of a station operating in defiance of this order will be under suspicion of being an enomy alien. It is requested that full publicity pub-licity be given this notice In order that all persons may be acquainted with theso requirements." |