§ SIR W. EVANS GORDONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the German police authorities possess and exercise the powers of expelling aliens on the ground of their economic undesirability, in the form of undercutting competition with German workmen; and whether he can say upon how many aliens these authorities have served notice to quit Germany for economic reasons.
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RUNCIMAN,) Dewsbury(For Sir EDWAED GREY): The German police authorities have the power to expel all aliens who may for any reason whatever be considered undesirable. His Majesty's representative at Berlin has made inquiries, and can learn of no cases in which foreign workmen have been expelled merely on the ground of undercutting competition with German workmen.