New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-25
They Will Take Over
Protection of All
New York Piers
at Midnight
Ordered to Shoot
All Who Trespass
Aliens Must Not Come
Within 100 Yard
Zone, Except to
Use Ferries

WASHINGTON, Nov. s4.--As mXh
night tomorrow United States regulars
will begin pstrolling the barred zone
surrounding piers. warehouses. grain
elevators and terminals in the Port Of
New York. Their orders will be that
no one shall pass, whether he be eits.
zen or alien, unless he Is properly iden.
titled and unless, in addition. hs has
business on or In the terminsI to which
he seeks admission.
This announcement was made 70.
night by Assistant Attorney General
John Lord OBrian. who has charge Of
the enemy alien situation. The Port Of
New York, he said, would be put under
military control tomorrow night with q
view TO carrying out effectively the
Presidents proclamation on enemy
aliens. The same system Of patrol will
be put into effect within a week, at the
outside, in every port on the north
eastern seaboard. 1t will probably b,
applied within two or three days tc
Philadelphia and Baltimore, with Bos-
ton Immediately following.
Arrange Details To-day
The military guard st the Port Of
New York is effective In Manhattan,
The Bronx, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Ho-
boken and other waterfronts about the
harbor. United States nnarshals having
jurisdiction Of the various harbor
waterfronts will confer tomorrow
morning at Governors Island with mil
itary authorities concerning details Of
the plan.
The soldiers will be armed with
loaded rifles, and will have instructions
to shoot all persons, aliens or citizens,
entering the barred zone one hundred
yards from piers, docks and ware
houses, unless identified by special pri-
vate guards TO be supplied By pier own
ers. Blue uniforms will be worn by the
soldiers to distinguish them from other
military forces, and 10 lessen the dan
ger Of accidental shooting Of persons
claiming ignorance of the guards iden-
tity.
Alien enemies, under the Presidents
proclamation, may not enter the pro-
hibited zones under any circumstances,
and must move out if they already
have business or residence places
within the lOO-yard limit. By this
strict system of patrol the government
hopes to eliminate the possibility Of
enemy plotters causing fire. and explo-
sions on piers and in waterfront ware.
houses.
All Citizens Warned
The Department Of Justice, in It's an.
nouncement, emphasizes that American
citizens, as we'll as Germans, must OBJ
serve the waterfront restrictions, and
not attempt to pass the guardlines
without being adequately identified by
the private guards, and given permits
sion by the soldier guard. Otherwise
the danger Of innocent persons being
shot is not negligible, it was explained.
The drastic rule was declared neees.
sary TO make sure that dangerous
aliens are sifted from the thousands
OF longshoremen. teamsters, clerks
stevedores, business men and others
having legitimate busines, within the
dock areas.
The Department Of Justice advises
that the barred zone be marked BY
some sort Of line, and that signs noti-
flying alien enemies not TO pass be
placed at frequent intervals. In cases
OF streetcars or railroads passing
through the barred district, Germans
will not be permitted to be aboard. even
for continuous passage. Any found
within the zone for any reason what
ever will be arrested and probably in
termed for the period Of the war. Per-
mits previously granted TO Germans
to enter waterfront zones are revoked.
The restrictions, however, do not apply
to public ferries.
Regulations Drastic
To-night's order Is much more dras-
tic than had been anticipated from the
terms of the Presidents proclamation
of November IS. under authority Of
which it is issued. For fev days, Mr.
O'Brien admitted. there cannot help
but be congestion around the water
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