FRITZ GOES HOME.
300,000 PRISONERS. ' . NO SADNESS OF FAREWELL. The decision of the Paris Council t» repatriate prisoners of war prior to the general ratification of the Peace Treaty rids Britain of the cost of maintaining 300,000 prisoners in English and French camps, and releases 100,000 soldiers acting as guards, says the Sydney Sun's London correspondent. Mr Winston Churchill (Minister for War) emphasises that the outlay, which aggregates £OO,OOO daily, far outweighs the advantage derived from the employ-, ment of the prisoners, 20,000 of whom are employed farming.
Manufacturers in various districts are keenly nhxlous that the Government should not permit any Germans to remain in, or return to, England.
The Employers' Association at Nottingham are pledged to boycott for 10 years any local lace firm employing former enemy aliens.
A leading manufacturer says: "Wo have not forgotten that Germans, who made' fortunes at Nottingham, slipped away on the eve of war, and wrote us insulting letters. We have wai'ued.'ftll foreign agents not to employ Germans if»they desire to continue handling Nottingham Jjooda,
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1919, Page 11
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173FRITZ GOES HOME. Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1919, Page 11
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