"CANNON FOR SPARROWS."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 5

"CANNON FOR SPARROWS."

FOREIGN PRESS VIEWS. "FOOLISH RIGHT OF ASYLUM." (Ecc. January 5, 10'.30 p.m.)

London, January 5. While French public opinion and newspaper comment warmly applauds the British authorities for their prompt and determined measures in tho Sidney Street fight, and welcomo the suggestion that tho Aliens Act should be more rigorously applied to tighten tho meshes against undesirables, the German comments are very diverse, according to tho political predilections of the journals. ! The "Lokal Anzeigor," in discussing the formidable array of police and military ritli a Maxim to capture a couple of criminals, compares tho action of tho London authorities to the shooting of sparrc.ws with cannon. It hopes the incident will lead to the abolition of what it describes as the "foolish right of asylum."

s Tho "Berliner Tageblatt," like tho "Neue Freie Presse" of Vienna, strenuously protests against the idea of restricting. the right of asylum, which it is declared has hitherto been one of free Britain's chief glories.

SPAWNING GROUND FOR VICE. FATHER VAUGHAN'S VIEWS. (Rec. January 5, 10.30 p.m.) London, January 5. Father Bernard Vaughan, speaking in London, said nil would agree that foreign desperadoes must be stopped from making England, a spawning ground and breeding vico for foreign exportation. Tho Aliens Act had not' sufficient restraining forco in the East End. There was not work or food enough to go round, and if any were starved surely it ought not to be the members of our own family, but tho undesirable lawless