EXPORTING GERMANS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1584, 9 June 1920, Page 5

EXPORTING GERMANS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night

With reference to a recent cablegram from Sydney concerning the departure of the steamer Main for New Zealand with a number of Germans aboard, to be repatriated, it has now been ascertained that the vessel really left for Apia, where she is due in a day or two. She will there take on board practically all the Germans remaining on the island, -*he Math was formerlv a German ship. She has been provided by the Imperial Government for the carriage away from here of a number of Germans, some of whom are being compulsorily repatriated, and some of whom desire to be repatriated. Australia was allowed to send a number of similar people by the same ship. The bulk of the Germans sent on account of New Zealand are planters, and others in Samoa, about 200 in' all, mostly full-blooded Germans, with no Samoan family ties. In addition to these, there were some thirty other Germans in New Zealand who desired to- get back to their own country, and it had been arranged that they should be sent over to Sydney to join the Main. Unfortunately, owing to the advancing of the sailing date at Sydney, no time was allowed for these people to get across and thev were advised that they would not have a chance of going by the Main, and probably not for several months.