Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-14
London Government Puts in
Effect Regulations Against
h.. All Aliens.
POSING AS AMERICANS,
SOME TOOK ADVANTAGE
Relief Committee Today Cared for
About Three Hundred
l.
Il: Refugees.

LONDON. September II, 2:2S PM
Great Britain today put into force the
regulation that no foreigner is to be
permitted to land in England without
passport. At the same time the Amer
lean embassies and legations all over
the continent began enforcing more
riged regulations as to the issuing OF
passports. The temporary suspension
of the rigid rules of the State Depart
ment in this connection is at an end.
Hereafter no naturalized American cit
izen will be granted a passport unless
he submits his naturalization papers
or unless the State Department investi-
gates his naturalization through court
records and cables that a passport may
be issued.
Also no American passport issued to
q naturalized American born in Ger
many will be good after this date In
Great Britain, France, Russia, Servia
This restriction will continue until the
end of the war No American passports
issued to naturalized Americans will he
good in the land of that citizens birth.
Impostors at Work.
All American passports will be issued for
the shortest possible time and none for
over six months The strict enforcement
Of these provisions Is necessary because
of fmpostors who, taking advantage Of
the war, obtained passports fraudulent3y.
The situation became so serious that 1t
looked as if American passports might be-
come utterly worth ess un ess immed ate
wspe taken grbts to
The American relief committee In
Ic don cared today for about 300 ref
ugees. Generally spec king they are
of a better class than those who came
70 London last week. Many American
women without funds object to taking
second-class accomWodauons on steam
ers for America, but the relief commit
tee is adheting strictly to its decision
to provide only the cheaper class OF
accommodations because of the large
number of refugees who must be cared
for with limited amount of money.
Although penniless and without Sc
curities, some Of these women insist
that they never Travelled second-class
and never will.
Could Not Endure Smells
One woman absolutely declined to
leave Liverpool last Saturday with any
thing other than "a first-ciass cabin.
and returned to London. She is with
out funds and there is nobody to send
her money from America. She explain
ed that she could not endure the smells
In second cabin.
Henry S. Breckenridge, the American
assistant secretary of warts in Paris
obtaining reports. from army officers
and consulate officials in England and
on the continent as to the relief work
which has been done with American
government funds. preparatory to max
ing a general report to Washington.
Secretary Breckenridge will be in Paris
probably another week before coming
to Tendon.
Few Americans arrived from the con-
tinent yesterday.
The American relief committee ex-
pended over 100000 in government
funds last week, chiefly in the pur-
chase of railway and steamship tickets
for INDECENT Americans.
The committee is now able to get
cheap passages and is rapidly rushing
stranded Americans from. Liverpool
and Glasgow without delay. Oficial an
nouncement is made of the reopening
of the port of Southampton for gem
eral steamship traffic