Arizona republican., 1917-04-17
FRENCH AND BRITISH TAKE 24,0OO PRISONERS
Says AZ Resident Aliens Must Avoid Reasonable Acts
Euen Those Wh0 Shield Others to
 Be Pm maShed
rRepublican A. P. Leased wirel


 WASHINGTON, April 16-All per sons in the United States, citizens and aliens, are warned in a proclamation issued today by President Wilson that reasonable acts or attempts to shield those committing such acts will be viz or Ously prosecuted by the government. Far reaching importance attaches to the direction of the warning to aliens and the declaration that resident aliens as well as citizens owe allegiance to the United States" and therefore are equally subject to the laws against treason and like crimes.
 At war, the United States is in a very different position from a neutral. Bomb plotters now may be gripped with an iron hand. Not OnlH are con- spiratOrs themselves subject to heavy penalties but any one, even a German resident, who has knowledge of tTea- sonable acts and fails to make known the facts to the authorities may be sent to prison for seven years and fined $l .O0O for misprision of treason.
 The presidents proclamation fol- lows:
 Whereas, all persons in the United States citizens as well as aliens, should be informed of the penalties which they will incur for any failure to bear true allegiance to the United States;
 Now, therefore l, Woodrow Wilson president of the United States, hereby issue this proclamation to call especial attention to the following provisions of the constitution and the laws of the United States:
 Section 3 of Article III of the con stitution provides in part: Treason against the United States shall consist in levying war against them, or in ad- herring to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort
 The criminal code of the United States provides:
 Section Whoever, owing ale glance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their ene- mics. giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere is guilty of treason.
 Section 2-WhOever is convicted of treason shall suffer death; or, at the discretion of the court, shall be inn -prisoned not less than five years and fined not less than S10,000, to be levied on and collected out of any or all of his property. real and personal, of which he was the owner at the time of committing such treason, any sale or N standing, and every person so convict ed of treason shall, moreover, be in capable of holding any office under the United States.
 Section 3-Whoever owing ale glance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them conceals and does not. as soon as maybe, disclose and make known the same to the president or to some judge of the United States or to the governor or to some judge CT justice of a particular state. is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be imprisoned not more than seven years and fined not more than S1.000.
 Section eff two or more persons in any state or territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States conspire to overthrow put down, or destroy by force the gov ernment of the United States or to lew war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force tC prevent, hinder. or delay the execution of any law of the United States or bN force to seize, take or possess any property of the United States con trar~ to the authority thereof they shall each be fined not more than & 900 or imprisoned not more than six years or both
 The courts of the United States have stated the following atcs to be treason able:
 The use or attempted use of an.
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