§ 123. Mr. BUTCHERasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to a trial at Llandudno Police Court of one Heinrich Grenwold, who was charged under the Defence of the Realm Act with being in possession of a military map and signalling apparatus and was fined £10, and to the evidence of the Chief Constable of Carnarvonshire at the trial that the said Heinrich Grenwold had, against his advice, been released from internment by the order of the Home Secretary; whether he will state whether this Heinrich Grenwold was an alien enemy and had been interned, and, if so, when; and whether he was subsequently released by his order, and, if so, when and upon whose recommendation?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe person referred to was released not by my order but by authority of the War Office. I am informed that careful inquiries were made, that the Chief Constable of Oxford, where he was a student, reported that he knew no reason against his release, and that the Chief Constable of Carnarvon, where he had been staying, while he could not take the responsibility of recommending his release, said he knew nothing against him. His Oxford tutor applied for his release. The recent charge against him was not under the Defence of the Realm Act, but under the Aliens Restriction Order, and appears to have been adequately dealt with by the fine imposed.