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Show AUSTRIAN STATUS UNCHANGED Declaration of .War Merely Places Nation on Interna-' Interna-' tional Lead Record. NOW ALIEN ENEMIES tiiiu ibun a vi tv ui kuuiiu Ships Legalized by New Action Ac-tion of United States. WASHINGTON. Dec. A. Declaration Declara-tion of war on Austria merely transmits trans-mits into official action and International Interna-tional legal record, a condition in which the United States has found itself it-self since it went to war with Germany. Ger-many. It changes the status of Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian affairs in the United States very little other than to include all subjects of the dual empire in the list of enemy aliens. Austria -Hungary has had no diplomatic or consular relations with the United States since they were broken off at tho time of the diplomatic break with Germany. Austrian interests in the United States will be conserved the same as German property is being cared for through the alien property custodian. American Ameri-can use of Austrian war-bound ships is legalized by the declaration of war, although some of them hive been used heretofore and the money for their use will be paid later. Comparatively few Americans born in the United States remain in Austria,' although there are hundreds of Gali-'j cian Jews and other Austrians who have claims to American citizenship by naturalization of having taken out first naturalization papers. The attitude atti-tude of the state department is understood under-stood to be that the breaking of diplomatic diplo-matic relations was sufficient warning to them to leave and that effort to get them out now would be useless. There are no American consular or diplomatic diplo-matic officers now in Austria. Diplomatic Diplo-matic affairs of the United States in Vienna are in the hands of Spain. Austria's Aus-tria's affairs here are handled bv Sweden. |