ENEMY SUBJECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1919, Page 4

ENEMY SUBJECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

»«-'■'— 1 j 1 r * 1 *| , * (Renter’s Telegrams) : CAPETOWN, March 2&\, -: • In the Union- Rouse of .A&bably, "the Minister of th& Interior - 'yWatit)*, Isi moving the' Beyond “rflfiJmgfjM the Enemy Repatriation and PenatucaX lisation Bill, said'thetfe£ S3SBHWO' • tny subjects and 17 naturalised pexwcui under -detention. \-,.= voluntarily desired- repfefTriatldri, nudSng, 1 ‘ a total, with , their families^ Thfcre were 1 also 444 who- hid&iihlPfcp' quired domicile, and’abriut ISy wlw-nad' l ’' displayed such proclivities as to be. % danger to the peace of the Union. -The Bill did not interfere with; enemy ’subjects who had never been interned'^ who had been released **i date. The Minister emphasised hns point that the Bill was the i’ 1 German atrocities^ 1 would bo' a great injusuCe Germans out of South Africa in’ the encouragement given ’ - ;■! years for settlement-by * * r ii hi ' whose descendants had given ' thdf - Jives 'side byi' side with the. Allies.' The t Government had declined tp give to English clamour' fdr fell 06anans‘n he repatriated, and had equally opposed *■ i the Dutch demand not-- to’,,- legriij|ptfe hi±«tinet Germans. The'’qhesfcion i ' i df < sn| *' ■; «ntrV of German dr *- • ■' |J je'dts into £?outh Africa couM ' dealt with till peace was signed*^The Nationalists strongly Uw Bffl: oh’ the- 'grounds 'that jt'Waii . pessary and wap likely $o Cause 4t3mbl&. The Right Hon. J. X. r merly Ihremier of Cape Colony}"declanSS •. that the'-Bill was on© of '-'safety.'* The ’ > sole’-object of Germany -during•. decade. would be revenge* . : x *very part of the British apd .French Empires arid 'Anibrica tb opportunity should *be given’ ? t& GemMgjjr y ’■ for, a hostile penetration of South ’Af-, •” f rica. The debate waa^a^journed.