ARREST OF ALIENS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 7

ARREST OF ALIENS.

PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN. LONDON, May 13. It is officially stated-that Austrian? and Germans aged between 16 and 6' are being temporarily interned. Hundreds already are reported to liave been interned. Three thousand are believed to be affected and 11,001 other aliens are affected by the nev restrictions. . The measures are the most sweep ing yet taken in Britain and were carried out with lightning-like rapidity when 3000 enemy aliens were rounded up and placed in internment camps. The raids were carried c*.,it sim ultaneously in 30 counties. The people arrested were placed in internment camps surrounded by barbed. wire entanglements. Noncommissioned officers and {men among the guards at these camps carry a rifle and ammunition with them all the time, whether on duty or not. The measures taken were regarded as es sential in order to prevent a possible landing of German troops by parachute in England being assisted by German nationals inside the country. 11l addition to the enemy aliens arrested, 11,000 non-enemy aliens have been ordered to report to the police daily. They are also forbidden to use a motor-ear or to travel in other than public motor vehicles. They are also forbidden to use a bicycle or to be out of their homes after dark. Only invalids and infirm people have been excluded from the internment camps.