The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-06-07
FIFTEEAHUNDRED
wake UP'' IOF|ND /.
THEY ARE ALIENS
Residents Who Long Believed
Themselves Citizens Have
AK Been Breaking law s
THREE HUNDRED or THEM
HELD AS ALIEN ENEMIES
Fights Granted by. Rspubbc ahd
Royal Constitutions De- +.
~. 'clafed Invalid

Territory who for years have been ex
efeising all rights as citizens by yot
Jug ut elections holding public posi-
tiOns and In other ways are, In fact
Inv breakers, aud of this dftsen hon
dred some three hundred not only have
been breaking eitizcqship laws, but
wake DIP az this late day to learn that
they are alien enemies subiest to all
Of the restrictions and regglations DC
StgRed. to control actions of foes of
the United States.
Briefly, citizenship that WAS grant
ed TO aliens, born under any OF the
royal constitutions nTfby certificates Is.
sued upder,the Republican, form Of gov
eTpment have no value today because
the rights, granted by. these oonstitu
ttOns and by the republic conflict hi
rcetly With United States law.
Technical VioIators
II Is, acseFted p by the authorities
thai virtually all of those who have
been, violating the law, are offenders
only technically, as they believed them
selves to be. citizens of the L nited
states and only leprn now through the
ruling of the limited States district
attorney that they have been exereis.
ing rights which they do not poasess.
None Of the grants of citizcnship
either under the moparchial constitn
ttonS of Hawaii or under the repub
hean government required those to
whom they were granted to foreswear
hlIogialce to the countries in which
they we're born. 1t is this. feature
that brings the grants in question di
rectly into conflict with the require
monts Of United states law.
The situation hits all children of
aliens born under the Hawaiian mon
aFchv, who did not elect citizenship
on majority and literally hundreds who
had no vestige of doubt that they were
American citizens now learn that they
hold no rights of this character, Those
of German Or Austrian birth are held
to be- alien enemies and as such are
to be required to 80 register them
selves with the authorities.
Is Thunderbolt
,SpmethinS, like =, CONSERVATION wa
caused to many German residents Of
Hawaii when they read yesterday Of
y District EkttpgreJa u Csi Heber 'sf ruling
thpt the granting of special rights of
citizenship under the Republic Of Ha
Waii did not. make the holder an Am.
erican citizen, unless he WINS after
wards naturalized, as required bv tho
h'aHd .goHerDhent constitution.
Two = ell known Residents who foI
twenty years had believed they were
american citizens called on the fed
cal district attorney yesterday when
they learned of the ruling which placed
them In the alien enemy class They
were Charles Bosse, mill engineer Of
FL" Oahu Sugar Company. and Gustavo
R'edPl, daifyman, who lives at ll2l
Quick Avenue.
Bosse said he had thought for years
that he was an American citizen as
he was the PnssessOr of one of the
Republic 5 conditional citizenship pa
pers as did also Riedel for the same
reason. BOsse said he had never voted
h""ouSe not interested in politics. bnt
R'"dol has exercised his supposed right
Ht suffrage, ever since annexation.
Both Register
Both Of the Germans who called on
federal authorities yesterday did so
in order TO he registered AS alien enc
mics, as will be required Of all Ger
mans who had conditional citizenship
under the Republic, but who never
completed their citizenship hy natural
iratiOn.
a Pecpliar Development of the Giti
ze4ship muddlc. because of the misun
derstanding of the citizenship laws Of
the Republic, and how affected bv the
annexation of the Islands by United
states, iS the assertion that the sOns
Of all who were aliens under the mon
Rrrhy are also aliens and not Amer
lean citizens as they have enormously
presumed. Sons of such aliens wht
came here az children and all SOM
born prev iOus to the overthrow of tho
monarchy are held to he aliens. un
loss they baye since become natural
lied.
Incomplete records now in the hand,
If the fe lrvRl officials show that. there
we're probably fully 1900 residents of
the Islands before annexation who had
al the rights of citizenship, without
renOuncinG their allegiance to the coun.
tries Of their, birth, acquired through
the securing of special rights of citi
2cnship or letters of deniEation
NnoU SOp OF tDe FOLDERS or the Spe
ciaI rights of citizenship or letters Of
henihatiOn were of GermaA and Aus
trinu birth. m has now been establish
Ell nv the federal RHthoritips, who hav,
a list of such residents nr former resi-
A""ts nf the Islands compiled
To Check Lists
Until this list is checked with the
naturalization records Of the Island.
il " in he unknown how many of thesr
r"rmrr @e"man and Austrian resident
are still living either here or some
o'hrr MAC" under the American flag
who eNnuld be listed as enemy aliens
nn required to comply with all tn,
"'r r""'Iat'"nS governing the actions
81 ""h "r'idcrts.
I"'"I i e." 90 ~" list Of those who ar
",."L - citizenship ri"hts with the
..'..'n inH'inn records will he started
~ .n""" 50 that all such Germans or
NmstrianS who did not complete their
citizenship by naturalization may be
notified to present themselves for reg.
lirutlOn.