LORDS DIVIDED

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1933, Page 8

LORDS DIVIDED

ALIEN RESIDENTIAL QUESTION.

Viscount Berio of Thames latdly divided the House of Lords on a proposal that tlie Government should revoke the permission given to the German Captain von Rmelen to live in England. His suggestion was opposed by the Government and was defeated by 29 to 15. Captain von Rintelen, formerly in the German Admiralty, recently wrote a hook in which ho related the story, told to him by Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, war-time Chief of the Admiralty Intelligence Service, how Count von Spee’s squadron was lured to ■ distinction off the Falkland Islands by means of a bogus cablegram. Viscount Bertie recalled that Captain von Rintelen was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in America during the war for planting bombs in ships carrying munitions' for the Allies, “it gives offence,”, said Lord Bertie, “to some of those whodost . sons in the war that such a person should he allowed to reside here.” .

The Earl of Lucan, replying.for the Government, said that Captain von Rintelen came to England in 1926. The Home Secretary had no reason to believe fil'd his presence was ■ detrimental to British interests, and he would not feel justified in terminating his stay. If the Home Secretary was. satisfied that Captain von Rintelen’s continued presence was not, conducive to the public good lie would nof, hesitate to use his powers of deportation.