GERMANS GO HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1920, Page 5

GERMANS GO HOME.

FROM AUSTRALIA AND APIA. GERMANS HERE TO FOLLOW. By Telegraph —Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In reference to a recent cablegram from Sydney concerning the departure of the steamer Main for New Zealand with a number of Germans on Board to be repatriated, it is now ascertained the vessel really left for Apia, where she is due in a day or two, and will there take on board practically all the Germans remaining on tiie Island.

The Main Was formerly a German ship, and has been provided by the Imperial Government for the carriage away from here of a number of Germans, some of whom were being compulsorily repatriated, and some of whom desired to be repatriated. Australia Was allowed to send a number of similar people by the same ship. The bulk of the Germans sent on account of New Zealand are planters and others in Samoa, about 200 in all, mostly full-blooded Germans with no Samban family ties. In addition to these there v/ere some thirty other Germans in New Zealand who' desired to get back to their own country, and it had been arranged that they should be sent over to Sydney to join the Main there. Unfortunately, owing to the advancing of the sailing date at Sydney, no time was allowed for these people to get across, and they were advised that they would not have a shanoe of going by the Main, and probably not for several months.