THE ALIENS QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 251, 11 July 1918, Page 5

THE ALIENS QUESTION

DRASTIC REPORT BY BRITISH COMMITTEE IMPORTANT STATEMENT EXPECTED '■ London, July 9. o Six members of Parliament, who at Mr. o Lloyd George's request examined the o aliens question, recommend that every o male enemy alien.over eighteen should a be interned unless definite medical or n other reasons are found for his exemp--0 tion; and also that women of enemy !• origin, except those whose husbands havo ■ been exempted frpm internment, shall, as e soon as possible, bo repatriated. All perV sons of enemy origin should bo dis- '• charged from the Government service, p and enemy businesses and banks should ' be wound up. Tho committee suggests - that a coramitteo of members of the b Houso of Commons should bo appointed 'I to visit the internment camps, and that : , all clinngce of names innde since August,. 8 1911, should bo inoperative. The committeo will issue a separate t and secret report proposing to deal with. 9 tho espionage, question, ' Sir George Cave (Secretary of State for 5 Homo Alfairs) vill lnako a statement on • tho aliens question on Thursday—Aus.3 N.Z. Cablo Assn. 3 PUBLIC IRRITATION. ; (Rec. July 5.5 p.m.) 1 ■ London, July 9. In tho Houso of Lords, Lord Charles . Beresford declared that the lenient treat- . nisnt of aliens by tho Government was intensely irritating to the 1 public. Ho hiid received three thousand letters of protest within a fortnight. 'Uninterned male onciny subjects number 12,600, of which six thousand aro Germans, including some in every financial, commercial, and industrial department of State. Fifty-seven aro still serving as British . Consuls, i Lord Sandhurst replied that the Gov. t ernment appreciated popular anxiety on I the matter. An opportunity would bo ( given to discuss the question. In tho Houso of Commons, Sir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade), in reply to a quo3tion, said' that onemy subjects had made 1310 applications for patents sinc« tho outbreak of the war. The Board of Trade had granted 914.—"Th0 Times."