Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1917 — TEUTON ALLIES TO LOSE GOODS [ARTICLE]

TEUTON ALLIES TO LOSE GOODS

AUSTRIAN, TURK AND BULGAR HOLDING IN U. S. TO BE SEIZED. All holdings of subjects of Bulgaria, Austria and Turkey in the United States will be seized, together with Germans’ property, A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, announced Thursday. Palmer’s decision regards Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria as enemies, although the United States has never formally declared war against these three allies of Germany. His ruling followed a series of conferences with treasury department officials, at which the scope of the trading with the enemy act was carefully studied. Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria have vast stores of war supplies in the United States. These, as in the case of the Germany property, will be affected by PalmeY’s new ruling. The dividends from their investments also will be turned over to the treasury department for investment in future Liberty loans. Announcement is expected shortly of local officers who will enforce the act in all the principal industrial and shipping centers of the country. Any sort of property belonging to agents or citizens of these countries is subject to seizure. If it apparently is privately owned in good faith and non-military in nature, it will be returned at the end of the war. Whether property belonging to unnaturalized enemy aliens resident in this country will be seized depends on a decision from the president. Pending this it will not be touched.