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AN "ALIEN ENEMY"

HARSHNESS.OF THE LAW. Tottering feebly into court, an old lady, Constance Trevor Stromoyor, who said she was the aunt of Mr. Robhouse, Postmaster-General, wus charged before the ■■Worthing Magistrates on November ]1, with failing to register as an alien. "How can that be?" she asked the Court, in amazement. "I am Englinh, and so are all my family." •, _. It was explained that, she married an Austrian. Ho had been dead six years, and he left Austria 26 yeai'6 ago. The old lady added that she was born in Calcutta, threo of hor brothers hav-, ing' served with the Arniy m- India. She claimed that hor brother-in-law was Sir Charles Hobhousc. ■ The Magistrates were to deal harshly with her, especially having regard to her age and feeble state, but as Worthing is scheduled as a prohibited area they were obliged to order her to leave,- and they adjouinedtho case for a week to enable her to do so. For "aiding and abetting an alien enemy" the old lady's landlady, with whom' she had been lodging for three months, wbb fined five pounds, with *Ju» antion qf M days' imwifiaomeafc.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 9

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AN "ALIEN ENEMY" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 9

AN "ALIEN ENEMY" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2346, 31 December 1914, Page 9

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