Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-14
BOUNDING Up Alien Fighters

Rounding Up Alien Fighters
That men for the British and Cana
dian ar!nis1 must be hurried 10 Can
ada a. once for training. is being i'm
pressed upon the officers Of the British
and Canadian Recruiting Nilsson in
the United States. By British and
Canadian Var Departments. Because
u the hea:y losses AZ the front j, has
feen found necessary 70 break Up an
entire division and distribute its men
among the batulions in the front line
trenches. Included in the battaliDns
which have been wholly Or partially
recruited in the United States. Orders
have come To the British and Canadian
Recruiting Mission headquarters at "a
Brornfeld st, Boston, 10 enlist a
thousand men within the next three
weeks and more If possible. !, ia fig
ured that this can easily be accom-
plshed. az British subjects have By
this time fully realized that they have
only short time in which to enlist
voluntarily, and few II them have any
desire to De conscripted into the Amer
lean Army. as they will he when the
new Alien Draft Law becomes oper-
alive. This new draft agreement
which it IL expected will be ratified by
the United States Senate within the
ext few days, provides that all Brit
ish subjects between the ages Of 20
and 40 shall be given 60 days in which
70 enlist voluntarily. II they have not
enlisted at the end Of that period they
will be drafted under these ages into
the United States army.
There is no longer any place in the
United States or Canada for descrter
OF draft dodger Recruiting officers
are gradually picking up and splicing
into the web OF war every thread Of
material needed to bring the conflict to
an end. The sooner every British sub
jcct ~ military age realizes this, the
better for him and for the world.
| Americans are available for service
faster than they can be equipped, and
aliens can hardly expect 70 be protect
ed in civil life here, while our native
sons are in their mother land fighting
TO save II from the destroyer. The
British AMI Canadian armies need men
much more than does the army Of the
United Safes British subjects should
no longer hesitate in the hope Of being
unobserved.
! Canadian recruiting officer IN
Canada says
| "As a Canadian | believe that there
are few Eritishers and Canadians who
will wait 10 be drafted ] wish il could
be Impressed upon them that We have
reached the point in this war where
we have simply got 10 have men We
have more munition than the Germans,
and We are vastly superior to them in
the air, but we cannot peat them un-
| I'll We get men 10 handle the guns and
| the lighting craft Of the air.
+ Just now we are engaged in the
work of preparing to round up three
| or four hundred men who have enlisted
through our headquarters in Boston,
and the various subdepots. throughout
New England. and who have failed to
report for transportation TO Canada
These men seem to think that because
they have enlistment papers in their
possession they are safe from molcsta-
ton by the United States draft au-
| thoritieB. They are sadly in error.
Their names have all been given to
the United States authorities and they
Will be the first to be rounded up when
the new Alien Draft Law goes into eff
| feet. We have also made an arrange
ment with the United States Immigra-
ton authorities by which they will de-
port all desertcrs from the British and
Canadian armies who can be located
| by the police and federal authorities.
Already W. have dcported number Of
deserters. and warrants have been is
sred for the arrest Of a large number
of others The penalty for desertion
Is q severe one. lin the business OF
getting at these deserters the United
States officials have CO. operated with
us in every way. and we are not GO
ing to have any difficulty in getting
every one Of them"