ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 4

ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

A RIGOROUS REVISION. . GERMANS WHO CROW ... • ■ LONDON, July It. r . : .'; Speaking on the aliens question in tbt t House of Commons to-day, Sir George ':; Cave said that, regarding the review ot ~:v naturalisation certificates, the bill intraduced would enable the Government t*"-- VV ! deal with the question, but the certift" :,"•>? 'cates would be reviewed, including those ;, granted during the war. Sir George;.-; : i concluded that since the war no patent*;- y had been granted to enemies, "over five >• hundred enemy businesses had been "/,■■'-. wound up, many of which had been:- '- transferred to British ownership. '','<:'•■' ■■•■ ;.>"':■ •';■ Mr Hugh Williams urged that if the .( ~A tribunal decided that an ; alien should ■'';'* ; - not be exempted the Government, officr ;:;;. should riot be allowed to revise the ; ' decision.' ■.'•..,..'-" '~ v ' ' I «g| .'■', Mr Lloyd George said that the debate >;<V showed that the House generally accepted Sir George-Cave's" propositions, which would be carried out vigorously : ' and ' ■■■!/, rigorously without unfairness. \He pro- ■;'-■; mised that the tribunal would be strong '^ ].((>. J and impartial, and that no personal con- ~:. ' siderations ' would be allowed to inter- ; .■; i fere with , the public interest. - "There i«'::-,';-'• never a British set-back after which I ,'-, do not get numerous letters front Ger- :.;,,'; mans in Britain crowing over the ; set- ''' J back,", he added. "This . sort of thing i ' '■{ must be stopped." ~ .:■."■ V •" -'■' v The reasons for exempting aliens em--;':: ployed 'in' Government , departments ?X----would not be published. They were ren- ■ ■-■■; dering conspicuous services to the coun- :;' '■..■£ try, and had been ,k extremely helpful. ;.■ Concluding, he said that in case of war 'J the country must be. given the .benefit.-'i- :'■ of the doubt, even to the point of indi- \ vidual hardship, but we must noteenter-:r r -:' r ; into a competition with the Germans 4 in,; y ,?. inhumanity and injustice. W" That would • ,S degrade our flag, but we must not com- , mit the.folly of over trustfulness to the '.;>. extent of endangering the country we .1;' loved so well.—(A.land N.Z. Cable.) < ~- •i ■ '■-.. v ' ■_•"■■*- '• ...