PASSPORTS FOR TURKS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 44, 22 February 1916, Page 6

PASSPORTS FOR TURKS.

A CORRUPT OFFICIAL.

HELPED ENEMY TO GET AWAY,

LONDON, February 18,

A Civil Service official named Dallas and an accomplice named Almani were sentenced to-day on a charge of assisting Ottoman Jews to return to Turkey. Dallas \\tas sentenced to i three years’ penal servitude, and Ali mani to one year, followed by deportation. They received £IOOO from Turkish Jews, who wished to return, many of them diamond dealers from Antwerp.

Mr. Justice Low said that Dallas had enabled Turks to return to the homeland and say that the incorruptibility of English public servants was a myth, and that the only difference between them and the Turkish official wa s that the English were more grasping.

SINGLE SHIRKERS.

UNDER THE DERBY SCHEME

APPEALS FOR EXEMPTION,

MAY WRECK THE SYSTEM

LONDON, February 18

The undue number M trades treated as reserved trades, and the over-great leniency of local tribunals in the exemption of single men is threatening to destroy the success of Lord Derby’s scheme. Wholesale postponements have reduced the yield of the early Derby groups to below the Var Office’s smallest estimates.

Th e tribunals are now sitting as public courts, and the reports of. interesting eases are published by the newspapers. It is hoped that this will bring a change for the better, as it will discourage -unnecessary appeals. Out of SOO appeals at Wandsworth 650 were allowed. Many married men. are writing to the papers complaining that single men are evading their responsibilities in violation of Mr. Asquith’s pledge. There are 14,000 appeals in the city. In most cases the employers state: “If you take these men I will close my business. ”