§ 4. General CROFTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider, in the Bill shortly to be introduced dealing with naturalisation, the necessity for compelling all aliens who have changed their names to state on their business paper the country of their origin and the date of their naturalisation?
§ Sir G. CAVEIf the hon. and gallant Member will refer to Sections 1 and 18 of the Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, he will find that legislation to the effect suggested is already embodied in that Act.
§ General CROFTIs that enforced?
§ Sir G. CAVEI have no reason to doubt it.
16. Colonel Sir F. HALLasked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been called to a meeting of protest of seamen held at Cardiff, on the 20th April, against the employment of the son of a German in a shipping office there; 1098 and whether, in view of the importance of taking every possible step to safeguard the seamen of the mercantile marine, he will agree without delay to take whatever measures are necessary to remove all aliens from British ports, so as to prevent any risk of shipping movements being communicated to the enemy?
§ Mr. WARDLEThe attention of my right hon. Friend has been called to the particular case referred to, and it is being dealt with. As regards the general point raised in the last part of the question as to the presence of aliens in the ports, I will communicate with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary.