ENEMY ALIENS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16360, 4 November 1918, Page 3

ENEMY ALIENS.

• FIUM ATTITUDE UI?GEI>. Consideration -was given to tho eueiuy alien problem by the conference of Associated' Chambers .of Commcrco last week. Several members spoke strongly on the subject, and the following motions were adopted "Thfit the general conference bo requested to recommenU a firmer attitude towards enemy aliens, suggesting that those who cannot prove conclusively that they have as much to fear from a German invasion of this country as 'Britishers should be interned: —'(a) That in the case of aliens from late onemy countries, British citizenship or naturalisation should not be allowed until after twenty years uninterrupted re. eidenre under ' police registration and supervision in the British Empire; but in the case of aliens from neutral countries, after five, years, fbl That the oath of allegiance should lie accompaniedl by an oath of divestment of allegiance to the Power of "which the person has hitherto been a subject, preceded bv a certificate from the Government of his native country declaring that he is released from all obligations and aikgiHiite as a citizen thereof. That The above conditions be also applicable to tho employment of alien 'labour." "That io be a suggestion to the Government/ that no German subjects be allowed to enter Jsew Zealand territory for a period cf not less than ten years.