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Show PLAN TO PUNISH AUENSLAGKERS DRAFT EVADERS OF NEUTRAL COUNTRIES FACE LOSS OF FUTURE CITIZENSEH1P. Movement to Provide for Cancellation of Papers Under Way, Over 300 Petitions Pe-titions to Revoke Declarations Being Filed in One District. New York. Between 50,000 and 100,-000 100,-000 aliens of neutral countries wdio had started the machinery to make them citizens of the United States before this country entered the world war and who avoided being drafted into the army by making affidavits that they had changed their intentions to renounce their native country, may be forever barred from becoming citizens as the result of country-wide action taken in the last week by Richard Rich-ard K. Campbell, commissioner of naturalization nat-uralization at Washington. The local result of Mr. Campbell's action was the preparation at the local United States naturalization bureau, at 3 Beekman street, of 300 petitions to revoke declarations of intention filed in the local district, which includes all the federal judicial districts of New York, except the western district at Buffalo and also includes Hudson county, coun-ty, N. J. More than fifty of these applications ap-plications were presented to Supreme Court Justice Platzek in New York county and were signed by him and are now on file. The petitions presented by Chief Naturalization Examiner M. A. Sturges are all entitled "in the matter of the cancellation of the declaration of intention." in-tention." The names of the declarants involved in the cancellation applications applica-tions are sent to each local naturalization naturaliza-tion district from the Washington office, of-fice, which, under a section of the draft law, received them from draft boards throughout the country. This law recited re-cited that persons making claims for exemption on the ground that they had filed only their first papers and did not intend to proceed further, would have their first papers revoked and would be debarred from citizenship in the future. The draft boards were instructed in-structed to send to the naturalization ' bureau at Washington the names of all persons claiming such exemption, with an affidavit by the declarant to that effect and a copy of his first papers. |