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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. President Wilso 1 has issued a warning against any erassen of Kglatiathm, which will l e beM toihtv front 7 a.nt. until 9 p. m. The warning is sounded in the following: Whereas the President, in I pi o,la mat ion issued on the lsth day of May. 1917. set apart the .".th day of June. 1917, between the hunts of 7 a. m. and I p. m. for the registration of all male persons between the ages of twenty -•ue and thirty, both iuehwlre, who may he subject lo registr.it ion in aeeatahmcu with tlte Act of Cong rem approved May is, 1917, authorizing the President to increase temporarily the military eo-lulilliih— ruil of the United st.ttes: ...w Ihtttfore, I, Wosdrow TTHisu. PitsHtuI of the United States of America, ds heteby give warning that all persons subject to registration under the provisions of the said Act of Ceuaxeus and the proclamation of the President who withdraw from the jurisdiction of the DuMad States for the purpose of evading said icgisUutien. expose themselves upon their return to tlte jurisdiction of the Butted States, to prosecution for such evasion of registration pursuant to Section 5 of the Act of Congress approved May 18, 1917. which enacts Must "Any pecsau whs shall willfully fail or refuse to present himself f..r registration or to submit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a mlmVsn ilittl and shall upon conviction in a direct court of the lnited Stales having jurisdiction thereof, he punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall tlnre-nuau In* duly registend." In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of lit- United States to be affixed. Bone at the City ..f Washington this twenty sixtli day of May in tiie year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, anil of the Independence of the ■Jutted States of America the one hundred and forty first. WOOUKOW WILSON. By the President: ROP.FBT LANSING. Secretary of State. Plans of the war department to draft from 900,000 to 1..".00. MK men of the 10,000.000, Who it is estimated will register today for the new army, were disclosed yesterday by Provost Marshnl-Ocnerul Orowdor to the senate military affairs committee. Exemptions, he said, probably would result in reducing the number to 620,000 men for immediate service.
