GERMANS RELEASED.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 February 1919, Page 2

GERMANS RELEASED.

ACTION IN AUSTRALIA. A protest against tho release of Germans from the various internment camps in Now South Wales was made rcently by a luecting of the Sailors and Soldiers, Mothers, Wives and Relatives’ Association in the Sydney Town Hall. The proceedings were wildly (enthusiastic. Alderman Ogilvy, who was in the chair, said it was time they wolco up to a sense of their responsibilities Tf these Gutmans were sufficiently dangerous to be interned during the actual hostilities, surely they were just as dangerous now during the Hmo of the armistice If the Federal Government intended to hoop to its i c policy of releasing those men, it would be afforded the opportunity of entering into competition with the soldiers on their return from the front. They mil knew that could not put any faith in a Gorman; therefore this sort of thing should not bo tolerated for a moment. The public should insist on released Germans being deported. Sufficient money should bo allowed them to carry them safely to vheir destinations, end the rest of their property should be confiscated in favour of the returned soldiers. Tim meeting warmly a nnlaud- d these sentiments, and was quite in accord n.-ith the proposals. A resolution wns cia.rri°d prote.sf'ng “against the "releasing of enemy internees while peace is still in abeyance, as the inhuman cruelty practised oit our-own and British prisoners dot's not justify such leniency being shown.”