ENEMY ALIENS
TRANSFERRED TO DOMINIONS GREAT DANGER IN BRITAIN (OlTlclal Wireless) (Received August 14, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 13 Replying in the House of Commons to a questioner, who asked for particulars of the Government’s action in respect to sending refugees and internees overseas, Mr C. R. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, said in view of the new strategic situation resulting from German occupation of the Low Countries and Northern France the Government decided early in June, in the interests of national security, that it was desirable to transfer a number of enemy aliens interned in Britain overseas. They considered the general danger which might arise from an attempted invasion of Britain of having a large number of enemy aliens concentrated in a number of camps in this country. Nine thousand one hundred and twenty Austrians, Germans and Italians were therefore sent to Canada and Australia.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 7
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