NATURALISATION.
An interesting question at the present time is as to how far naturalisa-l •Hon as a British subject exempts Germans from military service. The Tress says it appears that it does not exempt' .them at all. Should they happen to return'to their native country while they are still of age to- serve' they still remain liable- to jpensltiet? for; hon-serviee:;;, Only last' year it was reported that three Canadians, formerly Russians, on revisiting their niative country, had been sentenced to Siberia for life .on a charge-'of evading; .military service. Sh': Wilfrid' Laurier.. cited' it ...as, an example of the i iiicornpktgness of Cninadinn naturalisation, the . Foreign Office having declined to , interfere, but Sir Edward Grey explained that it was immaterial whether they were nationalised in. Canada or in Britain, as in all such cases the law of Russia would be the governing law.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 11 August 1914, Page 4
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144NATURALISATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 11 August 1914, Page 4
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