THE ENEMY IN THE MIDST.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 29 August 1917, Page 6

THE ENEMY IN THE MIDST.

Every week brings its evidence that the Americans have learned the lessons of the bitter experiences of the Allies, and are bginning to organis with all the advantages of those experiences. But even some of the U.S.A.’s very wide awake secret service agents were caught napping. The New York World’s Petrograd correspondent cable s that more than 700 so-called Americans had arrived in Petrograd within a few days, and only one of them had an American passport. Many of the newcomers are supporters of the Bolshevirk movement which is seeking an early peace. The World’s Washington correspondent adds to this new s that the who had gone home in elude a nhmber of I.W.W. followers, who are hired by German agents to sow discord. Thus did the astute fierman agents in America take ad-

vantage of the repatriation funds sent to America to facilitate the return of exiles as soon as the Russian republic was declared. B*ut the American soon awoke to the I.W.W. danger, and there is now before Congress an ‘ Alien Anti-Slacker Bill, providing for the deportation of all enemies in the midst —such as virulent pacifists, I.W.W. advocates, pro-Ger-mans, and men and women of that type. It is a pity New Zealand and Australia did not go in for such a policy years ago.