New-York tribune., 1917-06-20
100000 Germans in New
York Alone Free to
Aid Foes Cause
10000 Ignored
"Zone" Order
Mails, Cables, Ships Open
to Spies; Mccarthy Sees
"No Danger"
Tho nroblem of Americas uninterned

enemy aliens is idly drifting.
The government complains that i'm
,or.ant military information has been
reaching the enemy from this country.
The Navy Department itself has re-
ported that the arrival of the United
States destroyer feet in European wa
ters was anticipated by the Germans,
who laid mines for its reception. Sec
retary Daniels has forbidden officers
and subordinates in the department to
discuss what they happen to know,
even with their wives.
President Wilson, in his Flag Day
speech in Washington, spoke OF Ger
many having filled "our unsuspecting
communities with vicious spies and
eonspirators," then, in the present
tense, referred to intrigues that are
"being conducted no less actively IN
this country than in Russia"
The Cologne Gazette" says: eng
lsh correspondents at Washington ad-
nit that the greatest danger for de-
eisive conduct of the war in America
lies in the German propaganda. Our
best allies will continue to be, as hith-
erto, German-Americans."
Facts Faced Here
In the face Of all this, 100000 Ger
mans, not to mention besides at least
half that many subjects of Austria,
Bulgaria and Turkey, in New York
alone are EMPLOYED along the
waterfront and about armories and
naval stations, in shipping and export
Offices, in brokers' offices and in bank
ing houses-all great centres OF i'm
pcTtsnt news.
FREE to go anywhere in the city,
Without let or hindrance, that any
American citizen may go.
FREE to send cable messages TO
he neutral countries of Europe, sub
iect only to a nominal censorship on
this side, the same censorship to which
American citizens submit.
FREE to serd uncensored letters to
Mexico or the neutral states of Europe.
The authorities know that letters from
Germany are reaching the United
States via neutral countries. 1t will
work. of course, in two directions.
There is reason to believe that Ger
many is operating high power wireless
plants in Mexico.
No Danger, Says Marshal
In this situation United States Mar
shal Thomas D. Mccarthy. the one Fed
srsl official wto has the most TO do
with the alien enemies in New York
City, declares there is no danger. He
has been lecturing employers on the
impropriety and stupidity of discharg
ing German employees.
There is nothing TO be feared from
The Germans in New York" he de-
clsred Yesterday, "and so far as the
Austrisns and the others are concerned,
We are not at war with them. II would
be mistake 70 do anything that might
arouse these people. Why, so far as
danger is concerned, the United States
vas combed for Germans that might
be dangerous and all the authorities
found were 1875"
Theoretically, all Germans were 10 be
bellcN liOm DANGER LOHts uHitoS tH'y
fled application for permits from Nc
Csrthy's Office 10 live, work or visit
those places by June /. This time was
later extended 10 June 9, and Mccarthy
distributed $4,000 blanks. When the
time for fling expired little more than
10000 filed their applications. What
became Of the others Mccarthy does
not know. Neither, apparently, does
tny one else connected with his Office
OF those that did file not one has yet
received permit, and in the mean time
al are as free to roam about as they
were prior 70 the declaration of war.
Immediately after the declaration Of
war the Attorney General issued in
ttructions that all Germans employed
on docks and piers and in shipping
WORK should be sent away from these
PAGES OF employment. Mr.. Mccarthy
shinks that al have been dismissed, but
ne mas no definite information on this
Takes II for Granted"
Inc various shipping companies en-