GERMAN WOMEN CAUGHT

Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 58

GERMAN WOMEN CAUGHT

MASQUERADERS PUNISHED,

I How many more German women are travelling about the country masquerading as Dutch or other neutrals? This question was asked in The Daily Mail on September 19 in the case of Mario Kellage or Jilegg, a German, fined £1 at Grantham for failing to register, and sentenced at Marlborough Street Police Court to 10 weeks in prison and deportation for travelling beyond the five-mile limit. She pleaded that she had gone to Grantham for "only two -days" to see "an officer friend," who stated he had known her "for two years." Sjhe told the police she was Dutch. "No one can say how many German women are travelling in England under the guise of friendly foreigners," said a Home ■• Office official. "We do not think there can be many. The difficulty of detecting them is great. The police do what they can, but our best protection is that everyone is an amateur detective nowadays. The Home Office receives hundreds of complaints." By investigating every statement made by the public, the authorities are continually picking up and dealing with undesirable aliens. Alwine Boldt, a German, who posed as the widow of a Dutch merchant, took situations in good houses, including those of two generals, and was sentenced last March to six months and deportation. Dora Frank, a German blouse maker, was given a similar sentence in August. . She carried on business in Jermyn street and lived' in Regent's Park road. Agnes Grell, a German cookj calling herself a Dane, obtained a dozen situations in Kensington and I Paddington before she was sent out of the country last year. v Anna Manckisoh, arriving in England with a repatriated prisoner, was given two months' imprisonment as an. unregistered German last May. Mary Minde, a German widow, caught stealing purses in West End omnibus crowds, was sentenced in April to three months and deportation. In the same month two young German women were sentenced to six months and deportation for shop-lifting. ,