INTERNED ALIENS.
4,000 WELL EMPLOYED.
LONDON, July 14.
The Secretary of State for Home Affairs (Mr Herbert Samuel), speaking in the House of Commons, announced that 4.000 interned aliens were employed in useful work. There was, however, some difficulty in persuading people to employ them.
Lord Newton, speaking in the House of Lords, in reply to a question, said that many enemy naval and military prisoners were'employed in timber camps, quarries, road making," and bag making. Numbers also had been sent to work in France. The employment of civilian prisoners was a more difficult task. He had tried to induce the Marquis of Crewc to employ them, but was confronted by a threat to strike by something like 100,000 men.
Unless a more intelligent spirit prevailed, the end of the war (said Lord Newton) would find thousands of aliens still behind barbed wire, demoralised, and broken in health.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 6
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