ENEMY SUBJECTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3163, 15 August 1917, Page 7

ENEMY SUBJECTS

NEW PROCLAMATION IN SAMOA. J The. latest proclamation—No. 47—just issued (says the "Samoa Times" of July -1), may be regarded as supplementary to its immediate predecessor, which in , principle is noteworthy as being of a revolutionary character in its hearing on • the laws regulating national status. According to the terms of the penultimate , proclamation, overy person who has at any time been , a subject of any State with which Britain is now at war shall , be regarded as an enemy subject, irrespective of birth, naturalisation, or any . other circumstances, whatsoever. The lat- . est ordinance enacts that all such persons who. under the new regulation, are henceforth deemed to bo enemy subjects must report at the office of the Provost Marshal in Apia on or before Tuesday, August 21, nnd furnish particulars of naturalisation, birth, marriage, or other evidence of identity. Persons newly ar- . riving -without a satisfactory passport will be required to prove as to whether the proclariiatiou is ipplicablo to them or otherwise, and any such person may be detained pending the necessary inquiries being made. Moreover, ,any person resident within the occupied territory may be required to prove national status; non-compliance with the terms of the proclamation or complicity in iis contravention beinfr punishable "according to the laws anijl usages of war."