POLICING GERMANY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16435, 31 January 1919, Page 3

POLICING GERMANY.

A PROTEST.

Mr C. J. Parr, M.P., lias written to the Prime Minister, Mr.MasSey, wh o| is in Paris, as follows: — "Sir.—From ra*nt cablegrams, we learn that the New Zealand Division lias been doing garrison duty in Uermanv for nearly two months. _ I venture* to voice a feeling winch :s growing stronelv here that it v;ould be a S rave mistake to keep the Now Zealand Anny indefinitely in Germany to do ; what, after all, is mere police work. A renewal of heavy fighting is unhkely. In any event, with the surrender of its submarines and shipping, and its guns, rollinn stock. *.and strategic iorts, fcermanv is now so weak militarily that she can easily, be <lealt with by the I'rench and English armies. Why, .then, keep our division a day longer m Europe.-' Tho work of'the New Zealauders as a 'corps de l'elite" of storm troops or unsurpassed efficiency is now done. Surely, others can garrison Germany* Our« "is a, producing country, with a small population and an exceedingly heaw war debt. More than any other belligerent country, we need our inrin«rs"and miners back soon again. We are fairlv entitle*! to claim some prior-, it'v as regards shipping because we have gone the furthest from home to tho war, have been in it since the tocsin first sounded, and we suffered more tlinn any other country from the« absence of'our working population. Other countries have a surplus of people, but it is the other way with us. To meet our obligations necessitates speedy repatriation. In view of these circumstances may I, as a representative oi the people, "request the Prime Minister to use his influence in London to tho end that every New Zealand soldior be home before the winter comes?