The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-25
MUST AMEND QUESTIONABLE
Naturalization Bureau Agents Check
Up Lists on Tuesday and Early Ac-
ton VIII Be Taken to Bar Men
from Citizenship in the u. S.

Friendly Aliens in Kenosha are
facing dire condition. They may be
shorn of civil right, deported and their
property confscated under the new re-
gulations of the Naturalization bureau
and under the regulations which have
been promulgated by the President of
the United States. Worst of all they
may be for ever barred from being
citizens of the land of their adoption
the United States
Five hundred friendly aliens in Ke-
nosha and thirty five more in Kenosha
county are effected by this latest or
der of the United States Government
and two agents of the Naturalization
bureau were in Kenosha on Tuesday
and secured the names of all of these
men. In the near future aorGersrnay be
issued barring them from ever becom-
ing citizens.
The list includes all men who are
listed as citizens of neutral countries
who have declared their intention to be-
come citizens but who have claimed
exemption from military service on
account of the ties which bound them
to some other country.
There is but one way open for these
men and that is for them to with
draw their declaration of intention to
become citizens of the United States
and amend the missionaries they have
fled with the local board so that they
may become soldiers in the army Of the
United States.
The office of the Provost Marshall
General has authorized the following
statement.
The army appropriation bill carries
an amendment to the selective service
act which read as follows:
"The second sentence of Section 2
of the act entitled An act to authorize
the President to increase temporarily
the military establishment of the
U. s. approved May Is, 1917, be and
is hereby amended to read as follows:
That such draft as herein provided
shall be based upon liability to mill
tary service of all male citizens or male
persons not alien enemies who have
declared their intention to become eiti-
zens between the ages of q and 30
years, both inclusive, and shall take
place and be maintained under such
regulations as the President may pre-
scribe not inconsistent with the terms
of this act; provided, that citizen or
subject of a country neutral in the
present war who has declared his in
tention to become citizen Of the US.
shall be relieved from liability to mill
tary service upon his making declara-
ton, in accordance with such regula-
tions as the President may prescribe,
withdrawing his intention to become a
citizen of the U. S., which shall operate
and beheld to cancel his declaration
of intention to become an American
citizen and he shall forever be debarred
from becoming citizen of the United
States.
Suspension Of Induction.
A telegram has been sent from this
Office suspending the induction of all
registrants who are subjects or citizens
of country neutral in the present
war and who have declared their in
tention to become citizens of the Uni
ted States, but who have not completed
final naturalization. This suspension is
merely temporary until the President
prescribes regulations putting into eff
feet the act of Congress whereby the
relief from military service will be con-
ditioned upon the withdrawal by the
registrant of his intention to become
citizen Of the United States, which
operates as permanent bar to ever be-
coming citizen of the United States"
The list of men who are to be con-
sidered under this new act of Congress
includes many men who have been ae-
tive in the business and social life of
the city. The local exemption board
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