BILL TO PROTECT ALIENS IN ARMY REACHES SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 12. House legislation designed to protect 123,000 unnaturalised Germans ana Austrians serving in America's Army and Navy, and also to permit naturalisation of aliens whose citizenship applications were pending when the United States entered the war, was reported favorably to the Senate to-day. Chairman Hardwiok, of the Immigration Committee, said that legislation was urgent because unnaturalised aliens in the Amerioan military foroes if captured might be subject to treatment as traitors. Of 123,000 suoh men in the Army and Navy, he. said only 46,000 had their first papers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 5
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