New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 50, 4 February 1916, Page 5

New Zealand

PERMITTED TO LEAVE.

GERMAN WOMAN GIVEN PASSPORT FROM DOMINION. ! ANTI-GERMAN, LEAGUE ASKS > QUESTIONS. It was recently stated publicly that a Gorman woman ■ who has two brothers in America had been supplied with a passport and allowed to leave for America. This matter has been the;, subject of inquiry by the Women's Anti-German League, and correspondence which has passed between the league and the military authorities on the subject has been handed the press .for publication. The first letter was from the league to Colonel Gibbon, Chief of the General Staff, dated January 22nd, as follows:—"Could you give the league any information as to when Martha Grosse left the Dominion and by whom assisted, she being an unnaturaiised German subject? She having lived in the house of Dr. Christie for two years, he should be able to supply the necessary information. We look on this as an important matter, and would be obliged if you would.reply to this at once.—(Signed) E. J. .Moore, lion, secretary."To this Colonel Gibbon' replied on January 21th: "I have to inform you that Miss Martha - Grosse was, under the powers granted to the Hon. Minister for Defence by the war regulations, given a permit to 'leave the Dominion." In reference to this reply, the league has been advised that the war regulations give no power whatever to the Minister for Defence to permit an unnaturaiised alien to leave the Dominion. Since that letter was received the league's secretary has sent the following to Colonel Gibbon: "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, for which 1 thank you, and would further doom it a favor if you would sup- ! ply the date of the departure of Martha Grosse. Also the date of the permit granted by Mr Allen, Defence Minister, and the boat she left in." Xo reply to this letter has yet been received by the league.