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ALIEN ENEMIES RESIDENT IN 0. S.
PUT UNDERJRASIIC RESTRICTIONS
President Wilson Issues Proclamation Restricting Every
Alien in the United States
Washington. President Wilson
dealt a smashing blow to the enemy
alien within the boundaries of the
United States.
All alien enemies are required to
register and to obtain permits for
travel under a proclamation issued by
the President.
Enemies also are prohibited ap
proaching within 100 yards of water
fronts, docks, railroad terminals or
storage houses and are forbidden to
enter or reside in the District of Co
lumbia.
Only Germans will be affected by
the proclamation, as it specifies “ene
mies" and not of enemies."
The proclamation, issued as a sup
plement to the one declaring a state
of war with Germany, provides fur
ther that an alien enemy shall not,
except on public ferries, be found on
“any ocean, bay, river or other wa
ters” within the United States. They
are forbidden to fly in aeroplanes,
balloons or airships and to enter the
Panama Canal Zone.
The proclamation orders registra
tions as follows:
"All alien enemies are hereby re
quired to register at such times and
places and in such manner as may
be fixed by the Attorney General of
the United States, and the Attorney
General is hereby authorized and di
rected to provide as speedily as may
be practicable for registration of all
alien enemies and for the .issuance
of registration cards to alien enemies
and to make and declare such rules
and regulations as he may deem
necessary for effecting such registra
tion.
"All alien enemies and all other per
sons are hereby required to comply
with such rules and regulations; and
the Attorney General in carrying out
such registration is hereby authorized
to utilize such agents, agencies, of
ficers and departments of the United
States and of the several States, Ter
ritories, dependencies and municipali
ties thereof, and of the District of
Columbia as he may select for the
purpose, and all such agents, agen
cies, officers and departments are
hereby granted full authority for all
acts done by them in the execution
of this regulation when acting by
the direction of the Attorney Gen
eral, and after the date fixed by the
Attorney General for such registra
tion no enemy alien shall be found
within the limits of the United States,
its Territories or possessions without
having his registration card oh his
person.”
The restrictions were Jmposed on
free travel in the following section:
"An alien enemy shall not change
his place of abode or occupation or
otherwise travel ’,r move from place
to place without' full compliance with
any such regulations as the Attorney
General of the United States may
from time to time make and declare;
and the Attorney General is hereby
authorized to make and declare from
time to time such regulations con
cerning the movements of alien ene
mies as he may deem necessary In
the premises for the public safety,
and to provide in such regulations
for monthly, weekly or other period
ical report of alien enemies to Fed-*
eral, State or local authorities; and
all alien enemies shall report at the
times and places and to the authori
ties fixed.”
Germans will be barred from em
ployment on all vessels on the.ocean
or the Great Lakes and even from
traveling on private motorboats of
their own, under the following pro
visions :
"An alien enemy shall not, except
on public ferries, be found on any
ocean, bay, river or other waters
within three miles of the shoreline
of the United States or its territorial
possessions. ... or on any of the
waters of the Great Lakes, their con
necting waters and harbors.”
The section forbidding alien ene
mies to approach shipping centers is
as follows;
"An alien enemy shall not approach
or be found within 100 yards of any
canal, wharf, pier or dock used di
rectly by, ur by means of lighters by,
any vessel or vessels of over 500 tons
gross engaged in foreign or domestic
trade, othw than fishing, nor within
100 yards of any warehouse, shed, ele
vator, railroad terminal or other ter
minal, storage or transfer facility
and adjacent to or operated in con
nection with any such wharf, pier or
dock.”
The Attorney General is given addi- '
tlonal authority to declare prohibited ;
zones,, about other establishments 1
whenever he deems it advisable to do
bo. The proclamation does not inter- '■
fere, however, with existing regula
.tlons forbidding enemies to live with- I
In a half mile of munition plants, i
shipyards and other Government es- i
tablishments, though all previous
special permits to allow aliens to ig- j
nore the zone restriction are revoked. !
Where It Applies.
The proclamation applies to con
tinental United States and to the j
Philippines, Porto Rico and Alaska, j
l The penalty for violation will be in
r ternment for the war.
i Officials explained that the Govern
ment’s action is not intended to be
) vindictive and that Germans who
: mean no harm to the United States
r will not be molested. Under regula
tions now being framed by the De
- partment of Justice all Germans may
• not be required to report periodically
• to officials. The regulations will be
i promulgated within a few days, but
the terms of the President’s proclama
tion become immediately effective.
The administration of the restric
tions will be under John Lord
O’Brien, special assistant to the At
torney General for war work, and
i the enforcement will be carried out
largely with the assistance of the De
partment of Justice’s Bureau of In
vestigation.
WOMEN TO GET PAY OF MEN.
War Department Ruling Favors Those
Working In Arsenals.
Washington.—Women who f. o a
man’s work in government ordnance
and quartermaster work should have
a man’s pay, the War Department has
ruled. Suggestions forwarded to
arsenals by the chief of ordnance rec
ommend the eight-hour day for wom
en, suggest at least 30 minutes lunch
time with two ten-minute rest periods
per day; the Saturday half-holiday,
and further declared that wtfmen
should not be required to lift over
25 pounds in any single load, while
their tasks should be adjusted to their
strength.
3 U. S. SOLDIERS DIE IN FRANCE.
Wound Kills One; Accident And Dis
ease Cause Others’ Deaths.
Washington.—The War Department
announced the death on November 13
of Valentine H. Newton, of the Head
quarters Company of the Marine Corps
in France, from a self-inflicted gun
shot wound. His next of kin is his
j mother, Mrs. Margaret Newton, of
■ Arkvill j, N. Y.
Other deaths reported are Corporal
Samv.el Parrott, Marine Corps, died
November 16 of “mylitis transverse,”
of N. C.; Sergeant George
E. IMerkle, Signal Corps, accidentally
killed November 17, of Philadelphia.
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WARNS OF FOOD CANVASSERS.
Hoover Calls German Agents Crooks
And Confidence Men.
Washington.—Agents of the German
propaganda, who have been going
from house to house and posing as
representatives of the Government to
commandeer food supplies, were de
nounced by Herbert Hoover, United
States Food Administration, as
"crooks,” “thieves," and “confidence
operators.”
Mr. Hffover advised persons upon
whom these pro-German agents call in
the future to notify the nearest po
liceman and have the man arrested.
265 PASSENGERS RESCUED.
Taken Off Steamer Mariposa, Wrecked
Off Alaska.
Seattle, Wash.—The 265 passengers
of the steamship Mariposa, wrecked
on Straight Island, ofl* the Alaskan
coast, were rescued by the steamships
Curacao and Ravelli. Removal of the
passengers from the wrecked steam
ship was accomplished without the
loss of a single life.
World War in Brief
General Pershing reported that two
men were killed, three severely
wounded and three slightly wounded
in action on November 13.
Berlin announces that Quero and
Monte Cornelle, on the northern
Italian front, have been taken by
storm and the Italians have been
driven from Monte Tomba, the War
Office announced.
Italian forces have begun an of- '
tensive on the Asiago Plateau and
have occupied advanced elements of
trenches, the Italian War Office an- |
nounced, adding that further attempts
of the Austro-German troops to cross
the Piave have been stopped. i
Artillery fightinc of great intensity i
iis in progress alon? the northern and 1
western front from the coast to the .
| Ypres sector, according to the German '
; Army Headquarters. i
i
I Fedor F. Foss, mining expert on the
; Russian mission to the United States,
' has requested that firms making labor
! saving machinery for use in mineral 1
! industries send catalogues and descrip
tive literature to.him.
An anti-smoke campaign in Pitts
i burgh is reported to have reduced its ,
I famous smoke by at least 75 per cent., ,
thereby saving on property alone *7,
I 500,000 annually.
MIDLAND JOURNAL. RISING SUN, MD.
BRITISH THROUGH
HINDENBURO LINE
Ml London Proclaims the
liant Achievement
TAKE OVER 8,000 PRISONERS
British Now Believed To Be In Pos
seeeibn Of The Complicated Tun
nel Which Was The Feature
Of The Hindenburg Line.
London.—ln one of his longest com
muniques. Field Marshal Sir Douglas
Haig, commander of the British troops
In France, thrilled the British nation
with news of perhaps the most strik
ing victory yet achieved on the West
ern front, and certainly, owing to the
novel phases of the British attack, a
victory reviving hope at very gloomy
period.
The IJindenburg or Siegfried line,
which was thus breached, was be
lieved by the Germans to be strong
enough to hold back the world armies.
Its triple i cordon of three separate
trench systems had a central line with
a great tunnel, with openings at fre
quent intervals, making it unnecessary
for the troops to move above ground,
thus keeping the garrison safe under
the heaviest gunfire. It is believed
that much of this tunnel now is in the
possession of the British.
Pershing At The Front.
General Pershing, commqnder of
the American forces in France, was
present at the British headquarters,
as the guest of Field Marshal Haig,
the British commander, to witness the
British offensive. The American com
mander followed the novel battle with
the deepest interest.
Haig’s Report.
The report from Field Marshal
Haig’s headquarters on the British
drive in the Camhrai sector reads: *
“Important progress was made west
and southwest of Cambrai, though
rain has fallen continuously.
"Reinforcements which the enemy
hurried up to the battlefield to oppose
our advance have been driven out of
a further series of villages and other
marked with evident success and
moved along regularly, according to
sehedule.
The resistance offered by the dazed
Germans was negligible and by noon
British pioneers already were at work
laying roads across the old front line
trenches, while prisoners in consider
able numbers had begun to come back
from various directions.
The casualties of the attacking
forces thus far have been light. Great
numbers of German dead lie before
the main Hindenburg trench, where
the bewildered enemy, taken un- j
awares, made a half-hearted attempt
to stem the onrushing Britons.
The battle was an innovation for
the western front, for it was begun
without any preliminary artillery i
work. Upon the army tanks rested
the responsibility for victory or de
feat, and they fulfilled all expectations.
The iron giants went through the tre
mendous line of barbed wire entangle
ments in front of the main Hindenburg
positions and on over the trenches, as
though they were on parade.
The tanks started forward at 6:20
o’clock and by 11:30 the British in
fantry, which had swarmed into the
holes made by the mighty engines,
was engaging the enemy in open
fighting along the Hindenburg sup
port line back of the main defenses
at many points.
O. K.’S HOME CANNING.
Government Expert Says Such Goods
Are Safe.
Washington.—Reports that there is
danger of poisoning from vegetables
preserved by the cold-pack method
have been placed in the category of
enemy propaganda by Charles Lath
rop Pack, president of the National
Emergency Food Garden Commission.
“The cold-pack method has been in
use for five years and neither death
nor serious illness has resulted from
food canned according to directions,”
Pack said. "Home canned goods are
safe and necessary."
MASSES EDITORS INDICTED.
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Charged With Conspiracy To Violate
Espionage Act.
New York.—lndictments were re
turned by a Federal grand jury against
the Masses Publishing Company; Max
Eastman, the editor; Floyd Bell, man
aging editor; C. Merrill Rogers, busi- |
ness manager; Henry Glinterkamp, '
cartoonist; John Reid, Art Young and
Josephine Bell, the last three being (
contributors. All were charged with | ,
tonspiring to violate the Espionage act :
through the radical periodical.
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MEDICAL OFFICER KILLED.
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Illinois Man Falls In Fighting On !
Flanders Front.
Washington.—One American Med
ical Reserve officer attached to the
British forces was killed and one ‘
wounded in fighting on the Flanders
front on November 6, General Persh- |
tng repot ‘ sd to the War Department.
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WAR LEADERS
INGONFERENCE
The American and British Com*
missioners Meet
GOOD PROGRESS IS MADE
Earnestness And Unity The Keynotes
Of The Gathering—Lloyd
George Thanks United
States.
London. —None of the numerous Al
lied war councils whidh have occurred
in the past three years have occa
sioned the sime interest as Tuesday’s
historic meeting of the American War
Mission and the British War Cabinet
for tightening the links that chain the
Anglo-American war efforts. The scene
was the dingy old residence in Down
ing street, which has served the Prime
Ministers of many generations as both
home and office, and the room was the
council‘chamber where the cabinets
meet and where the destinies of the
empire have been shaped since the
days of the American Revolution.
The conference lasted an hour'and a
half, the members having frequent re
course to the mass of statistics and
official documents at their command.
There was little formality about the
proceeding. Lord Reading, the Lord
Chief Justice, who was the presiding
officer, started them by explaining the
purposes of the meeting and a general
discussion followed. At the close the
conferees reported that satisfactory
! progress had been made,
j Premier Lloyd George opened the
conference with a speech which the
conferees described as having been an
important statement. The full speech,
like the rest of the proceedings, is be
ing kept secret, but one conferee said
the spirit of greatest earnestness and
unity permeated the meeting and that
j .the most important practical results
: were achieved.
The American representatives were
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff;
Admiral William S. Benson, chief of
naval operations; Thomas Nelson Per
kins, members of' the priority board;
Dr. Alonzo Taylor, representing the
Food Controller; Bainbridge Colby, of
the United States Shipping Board;
Oscar T. Crosby, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, and Vance McCor
mick, chairman of the War Trade
Board. Colonel House was not pres
ent.
The British representatives were
Premier Lloyd George, Foreign Minis
ter Balfour, Viscount Milner, George
Nicholl Banes and Earl Curzon, or
Kedleston, constituting the War Cab
inet; Lord Reading and Lord North
cliffe, the Earl of Derby, General Sir
William R. Robertson and Lieut.-Gen.
Jan C. Smuts, representing the army;
Sir Eric Geddes and Admiral Sir John
R. Jellico, representing the nayy and
Major John L. Baird, Baron Rhondda,
Lord Robert Cecil, Walter Hume Long
and Dr. Christopher Addison, repre
senting, respectively, aviation, food,
blockade, petroleum and munitions.
FROWNS ON ALIEN SLACKERS.
A. F. Of L. Favor* Deporting All Who
Refuse To Fight
Buffalo, N. Y.—The American Fed
eration of Labor went on record as
favoring the deportation of hll Allied
aliens in the United States who re
fuse to enlist here or under their own
flags. During the two-hour debate of
this resolution Delegate Black, of
Toronto, denounced the United States
Conscription Law as “that dastardly
act” and brought upon himself a sting- ,
ing reply from President Gompers. ,
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$300,000 FOR REVOLT IN MEXICO. ,
I
German Agents Seek To Incite Upri6- ■
ing Against Carranza. '
Washington —Felice Diaz lias been I ,
offered $300,000 personally by German i
agents in Mexico for a counter-revolu- ! (
tion against Carranza, it was learned | (
authoritatively. Additional sums were ,
promised foi>his followers. Diaz is re- J
ported to be hiding in Mexico.
SHIPMENTS TO
RUSSIAHELD IIP
No More Supplies Until Situa
tion Clears
KALEDINES COMING FRONT
Hetman Of Don Cossacks Holds The
Master Hand In Control
Of Coal And
Bread.
Washington.—No shipments of sup
plies will be permitted to go from the
United States to Russia until the sit
uation in that country clears. The
American Government, before allow
ing the export of goods already on the
docks, wants to know into whose
hands they will fall on their arrival.
The cessation of shipments is tem
porary, if a stable government is
formed which the United States can
recognize. If the Bolshevik! gain con
trol and pursue their program calling
for a peace with Germany, the em
bargo will be permanent. A protract
ed civil war would also work to keep
the embargo tight, as the United
States would then fear that supplies
might go to the Bolshevik! faction.
The Provisional Russian Govern
ment was given credits amounting in
all to $325,000,000, of which $191,000,-
000 already has been advanced.
Much of this money has been spent
for supplies now awaiting shipment
and the Russians have been given
vessels for its transport. Shipments
will be held up by denial of bunker
coal to the ships.
Thomas D. Jones, vice-chairman of
the War Trade Board, called at the
White House and conferred with Pres
ident Wilson. No statement was
forthcoming, but it was bfclieved the
Russian situation was discussed.
Conditions in Russia still are far
from clear. The State Department
had no additional dispatches from
Ambassador Francis at Petrograd, but
unofficial messages coming from
Sweden were that General Kaledines,
hetman of the Don Cossacks, who
held the master hand in Russia
through domination of the country’s
coal and bread supply in the Don
Cossack region, was marching with
an army on Varonez, 200 miles south
of Moscow.
Passengers arriving at the Swedish
frontier from Russia also reported that
soldiers were parading the Petrograd
streets bearing banners demanding a
constitutional assembly of all Russia
and declaring that the Bolsheviki
regime was more tyrannical than that
of Nicholas. The passengers believed
the present revolutionary government
must fall through lack of support of
parties.
$49,209,411 FOR “Y.”
War Council Gratified—Expects Final
Total To Exceed $50,000,000.
New York. —The National War
Work Council of the Young Men’s
Christian Association announced that
the grand total of the nationwide War l
Fund campaign is $49,209,411. This 1
exceeds by nearly $15,000,000 the $35,-
000,000 goal set at the beginning of 1
the campaign on November 12. !
President Wilson, on being Informed '
that the fund was greatly oversub
scribed, .telegraphed congratulations !
to Dr. John R. Mott, general secretary 1
of the council.
“My heartfelt congratulations on the (
remarkable and gratifying results,” ,
the President’s telegram read. “I (
think it is a national blessing.”
The Eastern Department, with head
quarters in this city, collected $20,091,-
665. Its quota was fixed at $15,500,000.
The Central Department, with head- t
quarters at Chicago, according to in- t
complete returns, was second with c
$18,380,733, as compared with a quota c
of $12,500,000.
The totals and the quotas for the
other departments are as follows:
Northeastern, Boston, $6,368,925,
quota, $5,000,000; Western, San Fran- *
cisco, $1,773,500, quota $1,250,000; c
Southwestern, Dallas, $1,387,000, quota 0
$1,000,000; Southeastern, Atlanta, sl,- J
207.58 k. Quota i1.500.Q0Q. 1
WAR DEPARTMENT
TO FORWARD GIFTS
Christmas Packages for Soldiers
in France Must Be in Ho
boken December 5.
REGULATIONS ARE EXPLAINED
Washington. Confusion In the
minds of the people as to just
■ how they may send parcels to the
nembers of the American expedition
ary forces In France has been caused
by the fact that the instructions pre
pared by the post office department
have been given out In fragmentary
form, and that some of the early rules
have iince been amended. To make
the matter entirely clenr, the follow
ing official statement has been given
out by Otto Praeger, second assistant
postmaster general: i
Parcel post for soldiers and civilians
connected with the American Epedition
ary Forces in France, when carefully
packed and properly addressed, will be
accepted by all postmasters for direct
transmission through the mails. Such
parcels may weigh up to seven pounds.
Parcels for the soldiers and civilians
connected with the American Expedi
tionary Forces may contain anything
that is admissible to the domestic par
cel post except perishables which may
spoil on the long Journey to Europe.
Parcel post for the American Expe
ditionary Forces need not be packed in
wooden boxes, but should be carefully
packed in the strongest kind of paste
board box to assure its safe, arrival at
the front.
In addition to this parcel post service
to the troops, the war department will
undertake to carry Christmas parcels
for the American Expeditionary Forces
provided such parcels are sent "care
the Commanding General. Port of Em
barkation. Pier 1, Hoboken, New Jer
sey.” and are packed in wooden boxes
not more than two cubic feet In volume,
well strapped, and with a hinged or
screw top. Such Christmas boxes may.
be sent to the Commanding Officer.
of Embarkation, either by express
through the mails, and must not exceed "
20 pounds in weight. The army will in
spect the contents of each box and un
dertake Its delivery from Hoboken ts
the addressee. The war department will
receive Christmas packages up to De
cember sth.
Parcel Post Limit Seven Pounds.
It will be noted that parcels weigh
ing seven pounds but no more can be
sent through the post office department
all the way to France.
The twenty-pound parcels which are
intended for Christmas gifts and which
are to he delivered on Christmas day
are sent by the war department from
Its port of embarkation at Hoboken,
N. J.
Again in order to clear up previous
misunderstandings let it be said that
the parcel post packages up to seven
pounds in weight can be sent at any
time of the year to the soldiers in
France. The packages which the war
department will undertake to send are
Christmas packages only and they
must be at the port of embarkation at
Hoboken, N. .7., by December 5.
Of course the post office department
has been handling the smaller Christ
mas packages alt the way through to
France, hut in order to insure their de
livery on Christmas morning it was
necessary to mail them by November
15. However, the fact that the mailing
was too late for delivery on Christ
mas day does not mean that packages
cannot still be sent by parcel post
They can be sent any day in the year
at the rate of 12 cents for each pound
sent, and this rate holds from what
ever point in the United States the
package is sent.
How Packages Must Be Addressed.
Packages for the soldiers must be
addressed to the individual, with his
company and 'his regiment and then
must be added the words “American ,
Expeditionary Forces.” It is not
essnry to add the name of the country.
It will be noted that in the instruc
tions given jibove ana prepared in the
second assistant postmaster general’s
office nothing is said specifically con
cerning the kind of things which may.
be sent to the soldiers and civilians
connected with the expeditionary
forces. It is perfectly proper to send
sugnr, provided it is properly wrapped.
Matches must not be sent in any eir
cnmstances. Neither must anything
inflammable, except, of course, ordi
nary packing material, be included,
nor must tiiere be any chemical or
fresh fruit in the packages. Candy
can go if properly protected from
mashing up and ruining other things
in the mail. .Tars of fruit properly
sealed and protected against break
age can be sent. Nothing of an ex
plosive nature must be put into the
parcels.
It Is necessary the; the parcel post
packages weighing up to seven
pounds shall be wrapped so that the.,
post office authorities may examine ' .
their contents. The for the
packages which the war department
sends are given explicitly in the above
official communication. It is desired
to accentuate the fact that parcels up
to seven pounds in weight can be sent
by ordinary parcel post at any time of
the year, but that Christmas boxes
which are to go by the way of the war
department at the address given above
will not be forwarded If they are re
ceived at Hoboken later than Decem
ber 5.
Abraham's Chair.
The origin of chairs is lost in the
dim past. The Jewish legends declare
that Abraham made a chair with his
own hands from a tooth that fell out
of the mouth of Og, a huge giant in his
employ.
Expansion of Concrete.
Concrete roads expand most in win
ter and contract most in summer, ac
cording to the United States bureae
of standards, because of increases or
decreases in the moisture they con
tain.