REPATRIATING INTERNED GERMANS.
MANY UNWILLING 10- BEEURN.
(Our Special Correspondent.) . » Wellington, Jan. 6. The number of Germans to bo repatriated from New Zealand internment camps is 100. The guard, which has been chosen from among returned men, numbers twenty' The men who are to go include ! Count von Luckner and the members of the crew of the See Adler. It is under- j stood that the Defence authorities here.: have found it easy to make up the draft, owing to the unwillingness of many of| the interned Germans to return to their 1 native land. There can be no compul-' nion at the present stage, except in the case of naval men, who are real prisoners of war Civilian internees of German nationality cannot be sent back to Ger- \ many against their will until tho Peace Conference has dealt with the whole j question of repatriation, and it ks | that many of the Germans who formerly were in business here a*d in Samoa ace.-, content to observe thi Vvelopmant of 1 ' affairs in Germany from a distaste. I
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1919, Page 5
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178REPATRIATING INTERNED GERMANS. Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1919, Page 5
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