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Show REGISTER WOMEN ALIENS. President Takes Steps to Nullify Work of Women Spies. Washington. President Wilson on April 20 issued a proclamation calling for the registration of all female enemy aliens of Austro-Hungarian or German birth. All women of these nationalities in the District of Columbia who have been residents in the district will be given until May 5 to leave. Female transients here will be given until April 22. Details as to when and where female enemy aliens may register will be made public in the course of a few days by Attorney General Gregory. The administrative machinery to be used by the government in this work will be the same as now employed for the registering of male enemy aliens police departments of cities and postmasters post-masters in smaller communities'. The operation of the regulations prohibiting pro-hibiting enemy aliens from entering prohibited areas without permit will not apply to German women until a date to be fixed by the attorney general. gen-eral. The object of this, says a statement state-ment made by the attorney general's office, Is so that arrangements' may be made by women to apply for permits and a careful investigation may be made before the issuance of permits. Any German women in any prohibited prohibit-ed area after the time set for their departure will be subject to arrest and internment. t |