OFFICIALS OF GERMAN ORIGIN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3197, 22 September 1917, Page 8

OFFICIALS OF GERMAN ORIGIN

A POST 01TICE 3JYSTBBY

An able-bodied ustegraphist u a ffle(l Eupp. the son of a Gennaa lather and a Orinan motl'er, works rs a h, Thieadneedle Street Post Office London- This Post Office is in the centre of the city. Nearly twelve months ago (=ajs e '.Daily -Tail") Hupp asked the Hacknev Military Tribunal for exemption. He did lot Appear, but sent a wr,tl» 1 statement that hie father ana mother vie German, and he couul not conarms .gains J^o^n Eupp an exemption certificate. A reore=entative of the Iwlv Ji.i" ■?SS£ ofundeXnding why -.here train young *» and theylißve been taken for the Army, W "Ve lO ar: Pl not employing him," t«ey argued, 'Vcause he is a conscientious ;°nt ATe don't see how he can do any ha "Then why was he removed from the Central Office?" „ ' "Only as a precaution. "If it was necessary to remote him from one office as a p-aiuhon why employ him in another? , , . This question was answered in this fB S n ttack tlie Post Office? Ts it,lot a ma&r for the Government Are he * no men of German origin ui Whitehall. ?f the Government Mi* that no men f German origin shall be ompW Government office.* then, of cou.sa. Post OfSce will dismiss Pupp. Until adopts th» .7» applies it to everyone we are jnshhert in retaining him."