GERMAN IN BRITISH MUNITION WORKS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 138, 6 March 1919, Page 7

GERMAN IN BRITISH MUNITION WORKS

FEREETED OUT AND ARRESTED, At West London Police Court, before Mr. Boyd, li'einrich Baker, a German carpenter, living at. Tabor Road, was charged with having failed to register himself as an alien enemy, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour, and recommended for deportation (reports ."The Times"). It was stated that when questioned by DetectiveSergeant Lawrence about his nationality' the prisoner declared that he was'born at Liverpool; but that he had admitted afterwards Unit his parents wero natives of Hamburg.. ■ •' _ : The prisoner, in evidence, said that ho came to England when he was s.even years old. He had made statements about spending his childhood in Norway and other places because he "did not like to mention that terrible name Germany." He was in Germany in 1897, when lie came of nge, and "escaped the military cast who tried to put him in the army." Since that time he had been abroad on different occasions, and had been in Vienna, Paris, Brussels, Munich, and Basel. He met his wife in Vienna, and the were married in London in 1910. When the war broke out he registered a 9 a British-born subject. He had been employed at-various munition works, and had obtained exemption from militnry service at the Hammersmith tribunal. Mr. Barker: VVhure were you from 1877 to 1897?-"In Germany." You have shown strong German tendencies during the _last four jrears ?— "No,.except on some technical points." ' Did you once say to a young man named Halsey: '"What, difference would it ■make'to vou or me if Germany was to tfift thft' war? You. would be much better off, and you would have much more freedon) than von have now?"—"I don't remember saying that." Have you expressed pleasure at Red Cross boats being sunk?—" Never in my Deteotive-Serg'Mnt Lawrence said tha.t ' the -prisoner "was a much-travelled uian, arid had been living on his wits. He ,waS an undesirable character,