INTERMINABLE TASK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 211, 4 September 1915, Page 5

INTERMINABLE TASK.

CATCHING UP WITH GERMAN us*. HORRORS THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE. ■ tTlmes and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. The Government Press Bureau states that the attention of the Home Secretary has been called to an article in the "National Zeitung" professing to be based on a statement in the "New York State Zeitung" making a series of untrue statements as to the condition and treatment of German women and children in London. It asserts that they are exposed to the fury of the mob whenever they venture out of doors, and are compelled to beg in the streets. English hatred is even causing bloodshed. The Germans are prevented from buying food', the- mob chasing them like wild animals, while the police refuse to interfere. The Press Bureau states: "The falsity of these disgraceful statements is patent, but it is aa well to state briefly the actual conditions. Every German woman who desired to return to Germany was given facilities to do so, together With her children. Thoee who were penniless were assisted. Nevertheless, thousands of German women,made the most urgent application to the British Government to be allowed to stay, and while the general policy was repatriation, exceptions were granted in suitable cases. The allegations that German women and children were exposed to mob violence and were not protected by the police is wholly untrueInquiries at Scotland Yard chow th»t»» report of such instances was received. Tie statement reraarding oestitutio* •* ™f Cernume is equally fafce. wwr no instances of street bej^ls*