ASHLER’S DEPORTEDA

Taihape Daily Times, 16 September 1919, Page 2

ASH LER’S DEPORTEDA

_-._.__o____._. EX-CONUSL WHO WAS SENTENC~ I E DTO DEATH. _ The London Daily Express states “that Nicholas Emil Herman Adoplh ,Ashlers, formerly German Consul in Sunderlanfl, Whose certificate of naturalisation was recently revoked, was ydeported in mi‘d-June by order of the {Home Secretary. ‘ \ He was conveyed to a northern port ‘by oflicers of the Special Secret Service branch, New Scotland-yard, and embarked there for Germany. Ashlers was naturalised on August 18 1905, and in Deiember, 1914, he was sentenced ao death for high treason at the Durham Assizes. This sentence was quashed by the Court of Appeal, and Ashlcrs was liberated. Subsequently he was interned. Early in March last he appealed to the Revocation Committee for the re» tention of llis'Bl-faish citizenship, but; after a brief hearing his reqiiest was; refused. !