Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-20
GOVERNMENT TAKES
step AGAINST ALIENS
President Orders Them DriV-
en- From All Danger Points
of Country

| Washington, Nov. 20.-The govern.
ment yesterday took a strangle hold
on alien enemies within the nation.
BY proclamation, President Wilson
ordered natMn wide alien enemy reg
listration ordered the District Of Co
ilumbia and the Panama canal zone rid
Of them and forbade them to enter
within 100 yards of canals, wharves,
ipiers, drydocks, ships, warehouses, ele-
vators, terminals and depots.
They may not travel on ocean, bay
or river within three miles of the Unit
ed States shore line and they may not
fly in aeroplanes.
The registration is intended to give
a complete line on men whose allie
glance to the kaiser makes them avail
able as spies. Arising from the fre-
quent fires and explosions in ware
houses and ships, the proclamation is
intended to put an end to the freedom
with which many of these enemy aliens
have eircled throughout the nation.
The attorney general is empowered
to designate barred zones not already
provided and to enforce regulations
for registration. The alien enemy may
not move about and regulations for
periodical report to authorities can be
provided
This is the most sweeping step to
curb the spy peril yet taken by the
United States and is in line with sim
liar measures taken in England. Alien
enemies now residing within Washing
ton will be removed, lest they get at
vital secrets of the nation s war work.
The proclamation provides that no
alien enemy shall come nearer than 100
yards of any canal, wharf, pier or dry
dock used by any vessel of over 500
tons engaged in foreign or domestic
trade.
This prohibition also extends to
grain elevators, warehouses, railroad
depots, yards or terminals which are
used in connection with the docks and
piers.
Alien enemies must keep off all
boats except public ferries on ocean,
bay, river or other waters within
three miles of the shore line of the
United States or its territorial posses
sions.
No enemy alien will be permitted to
fly in an airplane, balloon or other
flying device.
/ The attorney general is given author
: ity to issue orders excluding alien en-
emies from the vicinity of warehouses,
elevators, railroad depots, yards or ter
minals, which are not already within
prohibited areas.
Regulations also are to be prepared
by the attorney general requiring per
iodical reports to federal, state or To-
cal authorities by all alien enemies af-
ter they have registered
No alien enemy is to be permitted to
move or to change his occupation with
out first reporting to designated au-
thorities and receiving permission.
The proclamation is effective imme-
diately. 1t is based on section 4O67 Of
the revised statutes, and includes Ger
mans, but not their allies.
| An enemy alien is native citizen
or subject of q hostile nation and COW
ers males of fourteen years of age
and above. AS war has been declared
only against Germany, citizens of that
nation only are affected, but other laws
are counted on to control possible spies
among the nationals of other central
powers
The attorney general $ @ffice was
putting the finishing touches on the
regulations intended to enforce the
proclamation. SAll Germans may not
be required to report regularly to the
police Law abiding Germans III small
cities containing no munition plants or
other war property will not be troubled
lit was intimated.
The proclamation applies to the en-
tire United States and all its posses
sions. Violators will be interned for
the remainder of the war.