New Britain herald., 1917-11-07
GENERAL ROUNDUP
 FOR ALL ENEMIES
Drastic Course Toward Danger OuS Germans in This Country

Washington, Nov. This govern ment is about to take the most sweep ing and drastic action against danger ous enemy aliens in the United States. All the agencies charged with the in- Vestigation of the activities of spies and the guarding of property have been busily engaged in obtaining evidence for new plan of preventing the des- uuction to property. {
 Although the order has not been | issued, it is believed that interned l Germans and those under surveillance , will be removed 100 miles from the ] seacoast. while a considerable num- ] Der Of new detention camps to con- tain German suspects may be authr- ized. Attorney General Gregory. in denying today that the order for the removal of interncd Germans from the coast had been issued, indicated that the genera subject was under careful consideration
 Attorney General Gregory is ex- pected to take up the matter with President Wilson and Secretary Baker very soon. While the utOst secrecy is observed at the Department of Jus tice as to the course that will be pursued, no attempt is made to con- ceal the fact that the patience of the
 
 German spies and suspects will be rounded up. It is feared that unless this is done another wave of sab otage will occur similar to that con- i ducted by direction of the German embassy agencies.
 AS custodian of enemy property, A. Mitchell Palmer has called attention of the Department of Justice to the great amount of property belonging to Germans which might be destroyed to prevent it coming into the govern 1 ment's possession. MT. Palmer be- came cognizant of such a probable I movement through the destruction of such property at Baltimore. Secret 1 Service agents furnished a list of Ger | man goods. including a vast amount of cotton in New York. Since the Baltimore fire and the frequent fires 1 in Brooklyn. MT. Palmer has asked | that extraordinary precautions be l employed by the Secret Service agents 1 in New York to guard against the 1 destruction of cotton there, valued at 1 seeral million dollars.
 | Officials of the government are in sisting that the policy of permitting l Germans to have their liberty as be- 1 fore the war should be discontinued. 1 The only steps taken to overcome Ger l 1 ment of German suspects in camps,
 while the great body of German citi- 1 zens have been allowed to have con-
 siderable freedom. President Wilson 1 himself wished to try out this policy, ] but in some quarters the opinion pre- 1 vails he is now satisfied that strong 1 military measures must be employed | The wholesale destruction of supplies l at Kansas City, Brooklyn and Balti- 1 more. occurring in the last few weeks l has convinced the government that 1 leniency toward enemy aliens must l end.
 | It is estimated that there are nearly 1 a million enemy aliens in the United | States. That it will be impossible to
 adopt measures to carefully observe
 all these is apparent but that many
 of them will be forced into detention
 camps or compelled to leave centres
 where war supplies are being manu- 1 factured and concentrated is now cer- l tain. They may be an exorus from
 the Coast States to Southern and Mid- | dle Western States. Such a plan Is l practicable, for if enemy aliens were 1 forced to leave the coast cities and 1 placed in camps in the South they could be guarded easily. One official ] suggested that it would be cheaper l to build camps for enemy aliens simi- l lar to the army cantonments.
 While plans for handling the sit uation have been worked out by | Secret Service and Department of
 Justice agents, announcement will
 not be made until after conferences
 with President Wilson and Secretary
 Baker. Action is expected soon after 1 the next cabinet meeting