Middletown transcript., 1918-04-27
ENEMY Attn LAW :;
APPLIED TO WOMEN
Wilson Orders InternedAll Those
Regarded as Dangerous.
ORDERED OUT OF DISTRICT
Women Of Austrian Nationality Sub
ject Only To Order Providing For
Internment II They Prove
Dangerous.

Washington.-Germ and Austrian
women in the United States were
placed under the same restrictions az
have prevailed for male enemy aliens
BY proclamation issued by President
Wilson under the recently enacted
law including women in the defini'
ton Of enemy aliens. These restric-
tons. applicable only to women above
II who have not been naturalized by
their own or their male relatives dec
ia:ations of citizenship, are as fol-
lows:
German and Austrian women are
subject to arrest and internment if
thsy violate the laws or are regarded
As dangerous persons to allow at
large.
German women must register, as
German males have done. with police
or postmasters on some future date
10 be determined by Attorney General
Gregory.
German women are forbidden to
enter barred zones about water front
and warehouses without special per-
NIT, after date not yet determined by
the Attorney General.
German women must leave the Dis
trict Of Columbia. None may enter
the district.
BY these restrictions the govern
ment hopes to rid the country of a
number Of women who are suspected
Of having promoted German propa-
ganda even after their husbands or
ether male relatives were interned.
Until now, the authorities have been
powerless to take any action against
women enemy aliens, because an old
statute included in this class only
males above the age of IA. The recent
law amends the old Law by removing
the word males"
In line with the Presidents policy
Of ieniency toward male subjects of
ArstrO- Hungary the women of this
will be subject only to the
general danger of being interned If
they prove dangerous.
The date on which German women
will be barred from waterfronts will
be announced as soon as arrange
ments can be made for women to ap-
ply for permits and for thorough in
of each applicant.
The number of German women in
The United States is estimated at
rbout 100000 to 100000 less than the
of German males. A week
will be assigned later for the regis.
ration and women will be required to
give full information concerning their
Individual records, their families and
o record their finger prints.
Thereafter they may move to an
,tfer place of residence only after
permit from the register
ng agent. Police will conduct the
in cities of more than
1000 population and postmasters in
smaller communities and rural dis
riots.
The Presidents proclamation speci. !
led that its provisions shall apply to
natives, citizens. denizens or sub
ects" of the enemy countries. De.
'artment Of Justice officials look for
he development of many Individual
luestions over the citizenship status |
Il women as was the case with males.
For sometime agents of the Depart
nent of Justice have been watching
he action of certain German and.
women. who will probably
re arrested within few days. Among
he women suspected Of being danger
us enemy aliens are the wives of a
lumber Of former German business
nen in New York and elsewhere, now
onfined in internment CAMPS. Wom-
n relatives of few prominent Ger
nan musicians also are under sus-
'icfon