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Show . ROUNDUP OF ALIENS BEGUN Of Half Million Unnaturalized Germans, Ger-mans, but Few Will Be Interned. Washington. A roundup of suspected suspect-ed Germans, mainly in seacoast and lake port cities, is in progress under authority of President Wilson's new proclamation forbidding alien enemies within 100 yards of docks, .equiring their registration and imposing other restrictions on their movements. The intelligence bureaus of the army and navy have charge of making most arrests of Germans not evacuating the barred zones. The department of justice jus-tice will receive prompt reports and after allowing for full hearing will determine de-termine those to be interned permanently. perma-nently. Only a small percentage of the half million unnaturalized German men affected af-fected by the president's proclamation will be arrested, officials explained in discrediting rumors of the arrest and imprisonment of many thousands. A few Germans have left Washington Washing-ton in compliance with the president's order making a barred zone of the District of Columbia, but the exodus attracted little attention. |