§ 41. Mr. RONALD McNEILLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will say how many of the 12,446 male and 10,500 female uninterned alien enemies are of German nationality, exclusive of natives of Alsace-Lorraine?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Herbert Samuel)Technically, 7,350 of the males and about two-thirds of the females are of German nationality. It is not possible to state how many are natives of Alsace-Lorraine, but persons of French race from Alsace-Lorraine form only one of the several classes of friendly race or sympathies who are technically of German nationality. Of Germans and Austrians of military age, 6,756 males have been exempted from internment, and of this number the natives of Alsace-Lorraine, the Czechs, Poles, and Southern Slavs amount to a little over 3,000. I cannot give the figures as to other persons of friendly race or sympathies.