Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-04-10
GERMAN PLOTTERS
HERE ARE ARRESTED
HAVE BEEN RlNGLEADERS IN
PLOTS FOR TEUTONS IN
AMERICA.
WATCH ON THOUSANDS KEPT
gerous-Must Obey Our Laws or
Arrests Will FoIIow-Invoke
Act of 1898.

Washington.-Th arrest of 60 al |
legged ringleaders in German plots, con-
spiracies and Vaccinations in the
United States was ordered by Attorney
General Gregory Immediately after
President Wilson had signed the war
resolution. Every man whose arrest
was ordered is a German citizen, is
known by the department of justice, il
was authoritatively stated, to have par
ticipated actively in German intrigues
in this country and is regarded as a
dangerous person to be at large. Bail
and the entire group will be locked up
unless there is a change in present
plans, for the duration of the war.
The men are placed in three groups:
Those who have been convicted of VIOLA
ton of American neutrality in further
ing German plots of various sorts and
are at liberty under bond awaiting the
action of higher courts; those who have
been indicted by federal grand juries for
similar offenses and are at liberty under
bond waiting trial, and persons neither
indicted nor convicted, but whose ac-
tivities have been under long surveil-
lance by the secret service or the de-
parment's bureau of investigation.
First Time in a Century.
For the first time in more than GEN.
fury arrests of alien enemies under the
attorney generals order will be made
without reference to the courts or by
obtaining warrants. The president is
empowered to adopt this course in time
of war under an act of congress passed
in 1898 and not invoked since the war
with Great Britain in 1912.
The department has under strict sur
veilance thousands of German reserv-
lists resident in the United States, who
are suspected of having been connected
, with plots already brought to light or
abandoned before perfection, or who
have been active in German propaganda
or because of their accentuated lean
, ings toward the German government are
regarded as likely to work against the
interests of the United States during
the war.
5 German Reservists.
How many German reservists are
, residents of the United States has
never been accurately determined and is
largely a matter of conjecture. 1t is be-
> lieved that the number ranges between
r 10000 and 100000. The great ma
!. ority, it was said, are men in middle
5 life or beyond, or men who have beer
b in this country for so many years tina
their sympathies in the present struggle
f are considered virtually as having BEEF
e transplanted to the United States. Their
y is, however, it was said, an army of be
9 tween $4,000 and $4,000 young German
reservists in this country in the prime o
= life who have been here so short tim
9 not more than from three to five year
v that they may be properly regarde
q as potential sources of trouble. Upo
. this army the secret service and the bu
If reau of investigation have concentrate
q much of their energy.
= When Germans Need Not Fear.
IS The following notice, signed
l. United States Attorney General Gret
e. DRY has been sent over the land:
"No German alien enemy in thi
a. country who has not hitherto been in
p plicated in plots against the Interest
81 of the United States need have any fes
p of action by the department of justiC
so long as he observes the followir
warning:
"Obey the law, keep your mout
m shut"
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