GERMANS NOT WANTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17254, 2 September 1919, Page 9

GERMANS NOT WANTED.

CANADA'S IMMIGRATION , LAWS.

[raOM ova OWN CORBBSPOVOENT.] VANCOUVEB, Aug. 2. Applications from all sorts and conditions of people in various narts of Germany and Austria, asking for information regarding the prospects .of emigration to th<> British Empire' have been received by immigration authorities in London. The) . matter was mentioned by LieutenantColonel J. Obed Smith, Canada's chief immigration officer in Canada, who has returned to the Dominion. "The new regulations under the Immigration Act have been made none too soon," he said. "Already in our London office we have received scores of letters from the interior of Germany and Austria, and even from Turkey, inquiring as to the advantages of Canada for . people from those countries. Needless to say, I advised them not to apply. . There is a strong determination m Canada to adhere to the policy of having no trade with the Germans. "No trading or industrial relations with the Germans ! or Germany," has been the slogan of the j Anti-German Trade League since its inception in the early part of 1915. This organisation was formed in Toronto to carry out in Canada a programme similar to that of the British Empire Union of the United Kingdom, with the object of protecting Canadian industries against German competition. Where cases of merchants dealing in. German, or Austrian i goods are brought-to .league's, notice, | a.letter,, as follows; is sent to the offen- I der :—is society has received a com- ' flairit that yon are 'selling German goods, t is a, rule of the society that, none of | our members will have any dealings whatI ever with those who.handle our enemies' I products, or employ Germans. ■- If you I have any denial to 'make, -it will receive 1 pur : proper consideration. Remember, I every dollar.. spent on enemy • goods ultimately aids the Germans.". - "With a few exceptions, however, every Toronto merchant has allied himself .'with us," said Mr. J. E. Thompson, a prominent member of the league, i" The wholesale merchants in -the city have cooperated gladly, but one, whose exteii sive ' business gives him a position of some distinction, was invited to join the Anti-German League. • His reply was: ' Certainly not'. I intend to keep German goods after the war. Why should I not . Another important retail firm has imported German goods since the outbreak 'of war. . The German marks on the packages were covered with. labels inscribed ' Made in Canada,' "