INTERNED ALIENS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14139, 15 July 1916, Page 5

INTERNED ALIENS.

PROBLEM OF EMPLOYMENT IN

ENGLAND

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received July 14, C 5 p.m.) London, July 13. Mr Herbert Samuel announced that 4000 interned aliens were being employed on useful work. There was some difficulty in getting people to employ them.

Lord Newton, in the House of Lords, replying to a question, said many enemy naval and military prisoners wers employed in timber camps, quarries, road making, and bag making. Numbers had also been sent to work • in France. The employment of civilian prisoners was a more difficult task. He had tried to induce Lord Crewe to employ them, but he was confronted with a threat of a strike by something like 100,000 men. Unless a more intelligent spirit prevailed the end of the war would find thousands of aliens still behind barbed wire, demoralised and broken in health.