The Washington times., 1917-04-05
100000 GERMANS
MAY Be EINTERNED
Government Has Emperor's
Reservists Located and Is
Ready to Act.
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full salary received by officers of the
same rank in the United States
Army, the money ultimately to be re-
funded by the German government.
The feservists, men not commits
enlisted men in the United States
Army are employed and receive the
same pay. They could also be hired
out to private employers.
Although kept under close watch,
such prisoners would not be treated
as criminals. They would not be al
lowed to keep money or other ar
ticles which might facilitate escape.
Paragraph "a of the rules of land
warfare reads as follows:
Line Clearly Drawn.
"Public war is a state of armed
hostility between sovereign nations
or governments. So that the first
effect of war between two states Is to
cause every subject of the one to be-
come the enemy of every subject OF
the other. since Il Is impossible to
sever the subjects from their state"
Paragraph 20, dealing with the
right of control, follows:
EVERY belligerent state possesses
the inherent right to take such steps
as II may deem necessary for the
control of all persons whose conduct
or presence appears dangerous to its
safety. In strict law, enemy SUBJ
jects located or resident in hostile
territory may be detained In desig-
mated localities or expelled from the
country"
In case of expulsion the enemy sub
jects shall be accorded the privilege
Of settling business affairs.
Paragraph % deals with practice as
to the status of enemy subjects and
follows:
at is now universally recognized
that hostilIties are restricted to the
armed forces of the belligerents and
that the unarmed citizens who refrain
from acts of hostility and pursue
their ordinary avocations must be dis
tinguished from the armed forces of
the belligerent, must be treated lem
iently, must not be injued in their
lives or liberty, except for cause or
after due trial, an must not, as a
rule, be deprived of their private
property"
Paragraph 81 refers to Practice
as to detention and internment." 1t
reads as follows:
For seIf-Preservati6n-
enemy subjects are not made pris-
oners of war en-hasse on the breaking
out of hostilities. Persons known to
be active or reserve officers or reser-
visits OF the hostile army, as well as
persons suspected of communicating
with the enemy, will be detained, and.
IL deemed advisable, interned on the
ground of self preservation, in the ex-
ercise of the right of control"
Explaining what civilians may be
made prisoners of war;" paragraph Al
says:
ain addition to the armed forces,
both combatant and non-combatant,
and civilians authorized to accompany
armies, the following may be made
prisoners of war:
persons whose services are OF par
ticular use and benefit to the hostile
army, or its government, such as high
civil officials, diplomatic agents, cou-
riers, guides, etc.; also, all persons
who may be harmful to the opposing
state while at liberty. such as promi-
nent and influential leaders, Journal
lists. local authorities, clergymen and
teachers. in case they incite the
people to resistance"
Paragraph so quotes article six of
a Hague rule, as follows:
prisoners OF war may be interned
In town, fortress. camp. or other place
and bound not to go beyond certain
fixed limits; but they cannot be con-
fined except as an indispensable meas
ure OF safey and only while the cir
cumstances which necessitated the
measure continue to exist"
Security, Not Punishment.
1t Is further stipulated that the
prisoners OF war shall be guarded,
not as criminals, but "as a measure
of security, and not OF punishment"
Rule SO places upon the Govern
ment taking the prisoners the respon-
sibility for their maintenance. 1t fol-
lows:
"In the absence of a special agree
ment between the belligerents, prison.
ers of war shall be treated as regards
board, lodging, and clothing on the
same footing as the troops OF the
Government who captured them"
Paragraphs 65, 66, and 81 author
ize employment of the reservists to
perform labor according TO their
aptitude" 1t is specified that the
tasks shall not be excessive and
shall have no connection with the
operations of the war"
Paragraph 81 sanctions the creation
OF relief associations for prisoners O..
war and the admittance to the Intern
ment camps of duly authorized agents
Of the associations who receive per-
sonal permits in writing to carry on
the relief work.