GERMAN IN BRITISH MUNITION WORKS

Evening Star, Issue 16990, 12 March 1919, Page 5

GERMAN IN BRITISH MUNITION WORKS

FERRETED OUT AND ARRESTED. At West London Police Court, before Mr Boyd, Heinrich Baker, a German carpenter, living at Tabor road, was charged with having failed to register himself as an alien enemy, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, with hard labor, and recommended for deportation (reports ' The Times'). It was stated that when questioned by Detective-sergeant Lawrence about his nationality the prisoner declared that he waa born at Liverpool, but that ho had admitted afterwards that bis parent 3 were nativw of Hamburg. The prisoner, in evidence, said that he came to England when ho waa seven years old. He had made statements about spending his childhood in Norway and other places because ha " did not like to mention tbat terrible name Germany." He was in Germany in 1897, when he canio of age, and "escaped the military caste who tried to put him in the army." Since that time he had been abroad on different' occasions, and had been in Vienna, Pans, Brussels, Munich, and Basel.' He met his wife in Vienna, and thev were married in London in 1910. When'the war broke out he registered as a British-born subject. He had been employed at various munition works, and had obtained exemption irom military service at th» Hammersmith tribunal. Mr Barker: Where were you from 1877 to 1897 ? —ln Germany. You have shown strong German tendencies during the last four years!—So, except on some technical points. Did you once say to a young man named Halsey: "What difference would it make to you or me if Germany was to win the war! You would be much better off, and vou would have much more freedom than vou have now"?—I don't remember sayIngthat. * Have you expressed pleasure at Rod Cro3S boats being sunk?— Never in my life. Detective-sergeant Lawrence said that the prisoner waa a much-travelled man, and had been living on his wits. He waa an undesirable character.