IDENTITY CARDS FOR ALL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 10

IDENTITY CARDS FOR ALL

CIVILIAN POPULATION TRADE WITH ENEMY BILL SPECIAL EXEMPTIONS (Eloc Tel. Copyright—Tfnitnd Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. G, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4. The National Registration Bill provides for the compilation of a register on census lines, after which identity cards will be issued for all. In the House of Commons, the Minister of Health, Mr. W. E. Elliot, in moving the second reading of the National Registration Bill, said it would facilitate such measures as the redistribution of food supplies. Mr. Elliot forecast a temporary scheme of rationing pending largerdetailed arrangements. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Stanley, in moving the second reading of the Trading with the Enemy Bill, said it provided that a person would not necessarily be regarded as air enemy because he was an enemy subject. German, Austrian arid Czech refugees did not become enemies merely because of their nationality. It would not be an offence to trade with them, but the Board of Trade would be empowered to proclaim specific individuals coming within the definition of an enemy, while enemy property would be vested in custodians. The Horpe Secretary, Sir John Anderson, in a statement, said that citizens of Czechoslovakia would be treated as enemy aliens subject to review by a special committee. Special consideration would be afforded genuine Austro-German refugees.