Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-28
INLAND TAKES ACTION
MAYOR SENDS COPY OF LETTER TO FEDERAL OFFICIALS URc- ING THAT THEY KEEP MEN Ih UNIFORM UNDER STERN oIscL PLINE UNTIL DISCHARGED

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Threats of the use Of machine guns by the police on soldiers and sailors resisting the efforts of the police to prevent law less attacks. was contained in a letter sent by Police Commissioner Enright to Mayor Hylan today, and forward ed by the mayor to the federal au- thorities in letters of protest against disorderly conduct by men in the serv- ice at two recent meetings of social ists here.
 In his letter to the mayor. COmmis- sioner Enright said:
 The last two encounters We have had with them (soldiers and sailorsl invited the same vigorous measures that are demanded in dealing with lawless and riotous elements, what ever their character. and if the use of night sticks. revolvers, or perhaps even machine guns is necessary to preserve the public peace, the police will be compelled to employ them"
 The mayors protest. directed to he secretaries of war and the navy. Ma jor General Bell. commander of the de- partment of the east, and Rear Ad- miral Usher, commandant of the third naval district. demanded that the fed eral authorities make immediate ar engagements to keep soldiers and sail ors under their control while they are in uniform and until they are dis charged from the navy and army"
 The police, the mayor said, had shown extreme courtesy to the men ;~. a,,d n1 would reciprocate, but they had as sumed. he declared, that they are privileged to conduct themselves as they please" This attitude. he as serted, had endangered law and order mot only in New York, but in other cities, where soldiers and sailors in great number are allowed the free dom of the city without restraint"
 Their own department, Mir. Hylan added. had made it necessary for him to order the police to give to soldiers and sailors the same treatment as civilians. when they become disorder ly a. incite riots"
 Commissioner Enright. in his letter to Mayor Hylan, charged soldiers and sailors with "reprehensible conduct on several occasions. following the signing of the armistice. but said these disorders which under normal conditions, would have been the oc- casion for stern treatment" were over looked "in order that nothing should mar the general feeling of joy al the coming of peace"
 The attacks of men in the service upon persons attending the socialist meetings ito avenge some rumOrec insults to the American flag which had never occurred" would have led to riots "of the worst type" the com missioner asserted. if the police had not suppressed them.
 In order to forestall serious dis orders" when soldiers and sailors are demobilized from camps in this vi- cinity and returned to civil lie. in large numbers, without restrictions which they are bound to respect Commissioner Enright suggested the government keep the men under con trol while they are in uniform and send them directly to the districts where they were enrolled. He urged that demobilized soldiers be paid off by their local draft boards, protect ing this and other large cities from consequences, the gravity of which no one could possibly estimate"