ARRESTS OF ALIENS ORDERED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 8

ARRESTS OF ALIENS ORDERED

TRAFALGAR DAY CELEBRATIONS

MORE GERMAN INHUMANITY,

LUNATICS LET LOOSE TO STARVE

(Received Oct. 23, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 22. Tlie Home Office has ordered the arrest of all Germans and Austro-Hun-garians between the ages of seventeen and forty-five. Two hundred were arrested in London, and hundreds at Manchester, including well-known men.

The Star publishes an unconfirmed report, which states that the authorities intend sending them to concentration camps.

Thousands filed past Nelson's column on Trafalgar Day. Admiral Jellicoe's wreath was prominent'. The Trafalgar Day celebration was, of unparalleled fervour- 261 cities and towns formally hoisted the Allies' flags.

At a crowded meeting of the Navy League at the London Opera House, where the Allies were represented, Lord Charles Beresford was the principal speaker. The President said that Belgium's fame, despite her " ruined shrines and defiled homes,; stands in the world's regard upon the highest pinnacle of all. , Mr" T. Mackenzie m°y^ a resolution me'sgage to the commander-in-chief and officer^ - and men of the grand fleet, expressing confidence in the British and Allies' fleets and earnest wishes . for their very early triumph over the enemv.

PARIS, Oct. 22,

After * sacking Bailieui, the, ttermans let loose hundreds of ■ luiiaHcs from the great asylum. these unfortunates tVEiidered about the country for d^ys, ■suffering terribly fro.n cold and hunger: A number diedj and many are still at liberty. .