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Show AMERICA IS FACING PERILS MARCHY IRON HAND NEEDED TO STAMP OUT SEDITIOUS TEACHINGS DECLARES PALMER. Enemy Aliens Now in Confinement to be Freed on Ratification of Peace, and New Laws are Desired to dontrol Them. Washington. OiJly the enactment of drastic laws can stamp out seditious sedi-tious teachings and the spread of Bolshevism in the United States, Attorney At-torney General Palmer, announced on Friday. Unless legislation of this character is provided by the next congress, he added, the country will be face to face with the "red peril." He made this statement in announcing that the department de-partment of justice intends to release 600 interned alien enemies now in detention de-tention camps. Unless legislation is. passed, it will becomn necessary immediately on rat-ificatiA: rat-ificatiA: of peace to set free all alien enemies in confinement. This would permit criminals, spies anil enemy agents now held in detention camps to preach the doctrine of the torch and the overthrow of government, said Mr. Palmer. " He stated that it was his intention to renew at the next session ses-sion of congress the request made to the last congress by Attorney General Gregory and Secretary . Wilson for laws to provide the machinery for the fullest investigation of suspects and for power to deport the most dangerous of the alien enemies. There are in the army internment camps approximately 4000 persons most of whom are men. Of this number, num-ber, 2000 are merchant seamen, with the exception of forty-eight members of the sanitary personnel from Tsing Tau. The remaining 2000 are persons interned by order of the attorney general gen-eral as dangerous alien enemies. |
