"INTERN THEM ALL"

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 5

"INTERN THEM ALL"

I MASS MEETING'S DEMANDS. ::.V>■"-.■:': '■ ■ ■» ' ■•''.••"' • "M£' •.'< '. '. BEMOVAI FROM OFFICE. S ;; ;■ ? ': ' ) (Received 10.25 a.m.) " ■"• ,?\ '' I ' ■■ ' v ' LONDON, July 14. . • A -mass' meeting in .Trafalgar; Square \ ■", ; passed a resolution demanding (that- all. . i J aliens of enemy blood .be .rimmediately;;, • ■ I interned, and also the -removal of suck - i 1 aliens from every Government and public >••-, V; • office. The meeting also protested.' against the inadequacy <of the Govern- -: • ments proposals for the control of aliens. j '■■ The meeting refused to hear Mr. Price i,. . Jones, ILP., who declared that the Gov- '•■-'•. ernment's proposals would go a long way j to settle the matter. •!'',■ \>. '.' ,; ; '."_ ;• : The National Federation, of Discharged, and Demobilised . Sailors and '> Soldiers' ■ marched in procession from ( the Thames , / » Embankment to Hyde Park with banners T\ '■..': inscribed, Intern them all," " Comb -:■'. -." ; them out." - Speakers demanded. inr*.: .• creased allowances for the disabled and. J larger pensions for the dependents of the ■'■■'■■( , killed and wounded.— (A. and K.Z.) ■■ ~\.',\~': '■-■ The "Globe" and "Daily ■:■ Dispatch 5, .;; ; , strongly support Mr ; Hughes', appoint-, ment, with, pjlenary powers, to deal with ,; ; ; - *. the' alien question.—(United Service. ) # . ,- i WIDE WEBS PROPOSED. :■ : . • . ' \ LONDON, July 14. ' In the House of Commons, Sir George;■• ...:- Cave,. Secretary of State for Home . Af- ';■ '.', ,■' fairs, moving the second reading of the .' Bntisb. Nationality and Status iof Alient , ";, Bill," said all the self-governing Domin- } '■'■ ions and India, "excepting Australia, had : approved of the draft /bill, but Australia . : indicated no dissent. The main purpose '• of the bill' was to give wider powers to.' '.. revoke ; naturalisation' certificates. The V ; ' 'bill did not deal with many difficult questions in connection with the law o£ , nationality, but he hoped that the policy;, •' of making nationality' laws was not ; , abandoned. " The Government proposed "; ': to refer the question to ;an advisory . committee of experts. The bill empow- ?., V ered the Home Secretary to revoke na'tu- : . ralisation certificates where they had been § i fraudulently' obtained, and also ,to revoke certificates in the case of 'disloyal .'■ persons, criminals, notorious bad charac- \ ters, and persons who have lived abroad f.. for seven year. ■ The :bill was read » V v second '"time.-^Renter.) ." '" "■ ■ ■ • • " ,t •