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Enemy aliens were ordered to turn in all firearms to the police following a previous order to give up their shortwave radios and cameras. Also travel restrictions were imposed limiting the distance enemy aliens could travel.

Enemy aliens were to be issued travel permits if they have to leave their municipal area. Also they were to be issued permits for possessing cameras if they had to have them for their livelihood.

The U.S. government was considering having enemy aliens carry special identification cards that had their picture and would be carried with them at all times.

An undisclosed number of Japanese aliens living in the vicinity of Fort MacArthur and the Los Angeles Harbor were arrested after a raid by FBI agents suspecting the men of engaging in sabotage activity.

White employees at the Northern Pacific Railway staged a sitdown strike in Seattle to protest the appearance of a dozen Japanese alien workers, after which the Japanese were sent home and the white workers returned to work. A similar situation…

Alien Japanese and Germans who were held at the immigration station in Seattle were transferred out, some to Missoula, Montana and others to an undisclosed camp. There were about 50 to 60 persons involved.

Enemy aliens were told to reregister at the post office basement and to bring three pictures of themselves, one of which will be put on their identification card.

Arrangements were being made to register Japanese aliens on Bainbridge and Vashon Islands without having them come in to Seattle because there were already travel restrictions on them, including riding on the ferries.

Vital defense areas on the West Coast were to have signs prohibiting enemy aliens from living there, and federal officials were coming to Seattle to have the signs put up.

Gen. John L. DeWitt, commanding general of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, said he was the only one to be authorized to speak on the evacuation of enemy aliens from the West Coastj after others had made requests for removal of aliens or…