England's Treatment og Aliene

Southland Times, Issue 19771, 22 March 1906, Page 2

England's Treatment og Aliene

RETURNED UUSSLVN REFUGEES Per United Press Association. I!y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright ST, PETERSBURG, March 20. Russia semi-officially denies Mr Rothschild's statement in the House of Commons in reference lo Hie shooting of repatriated refugees. LONDON, March 20. Air Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary. in the House of Commons, said he had no confirmation of the statement. Mr Rothschild staled that there was irrefutable evidence that every refugee, refused admission to England and repatriated, was shot on the Russian frontier without trial. 1 His was used as an argument why the Aliens Ail should not be made too stringent in dealing with refugees of scanty means. The London correspondent of the Argus remarks :—" Though the Aliens Act of last year fell far short of public demand. it lias already done much rood. A dozen, or perhaps a score, of v undesirables " ha.ve been retained, " not wanted," lot lie Continent. and their eases have attracted so much atleulL, among the ship-owners ol Bream. Hamburg, Rotterdam, and other places that the mere prosper! of having lo lining passengers hack' from England to the port ol embarkation has already led the ship]ting agents to be doubly careful as to whom they send to this country. In another way the ("A cl has

i eon beneficial. I have more than once called attention to tbe large increase in London of criminals o! foreign nationality. In the course ol One day this week 10 aliens wore, at lwo of ihe London courts, sentenced to. terms of imprisonment for various olfences. Li all these cases the judges expressed their determination !o hare ihese prisoners deported to (heir resoec! h(■ countries when they have completed their sentences. )