INTERNED HUNS TO WORK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5

INTERNED HUNS TO WORK

»■- —■ — NEW BRITISH SCHEME ON GERMAN PLAN. Au important scheme for allowing en-, ■cmy civilian prisoners out of their ini ternment camps "on license"- to works was explained to the House of Lords on.; March 29 by Lord Newton, on behalf of the Home Office. He mentioned that tie! Germans were doing the same thing, liberating numbers of our civilians from' Ruhleben and allowing .them to resume! their, occupations. . ■ '. , Reading carefully a statement prepared; by the Home Office;'lie said: '"A new,' scheme Ms been sanctioned under which; suitable civilian prisoners can be sent out of the camps on license for employment in food manufacturing and distributingr trades and certain other industries of na-; tional importance unconnected with' wan operations. Such men will_ be licensed onlv for employment as assistants working" for wage, they will not be permitted l to own, control, or manage a business. They will liave to work on the employer's." premises only and will not be censed for employment which entails, travelling, either as carmen, parcel deliverers, and such like. ■■ • "They will not be allowed either now. or later to comnete in any way with British labour. They will be licensed onlv. to assist in meeting a shortage of manpower." Anv employer who desires to obtain one of these meii has only to write to the Home Office, continued Lord Newton. There are 31.000 interned civilians in tin's , rountrv, about 2(5.000 bein? Germans and 5000 Austro-Hungarians. Por some time Austrians hnve been allowed out to workin the country. .