ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 218, 15 September 1939, Page 7

ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

A message from St. John (New Brunswick) states that Fundy Bay shipping has been warned by wireless of the presence of a submarine.

Changed Policy Of The British Government. NO GENERAL INTERNMENT. British Official Wireless. (Received 1U.30 p.m.) RUGBY, September 14. The attitude at present being adopted by the Britisli Government towards enemy aliens is in marked contrast with that taken in 1914 when its policy was one of general internment. Before the outbreak of the Great War no organisation for the control of aliens existed, whereas now, for some years past, the entry of aliens and their activities has been under close control. Another new factor is the admission during the past three years of many thousands of refugees driven by persecution from what are now enemv countries.

These considerations have been taken into full account in the present policy, and apart from known agents and sympathisers with the Nazi regime who were immediately segregated, restrictions placed on enemy aliens over 16 are confined to the necessity for registering and restricting their movements to an area within five miles of their registered address.

These enemy aliens number about 50,000, of whom some 35,000 ace refugees. Local tribunals are, however, to be set up forthwith to examine each case individually, and to report on appropriate action.