§ 33. Mr. KINGasked the Homo Secretary whether he has received a copy of a letter from a soldier of the Middlesex Regiment No. 30890, now serving in France, stating that the writer and his only brother are soldiers in the British Army, their mother a British woman, and that their father who severed his connection with Germany in his boyhood, thirty-six years ago, is now interned at Alexandra Palace, and requesting the release of the father front internment; whether he has made inquiries into these statements; whether he will request the Aliens' Advisory Committee to consider the application for release; whether, if no release be granted and The Hague exchange of prisoners becomes operative, the father will be repatriated to Germany against his will; and whether, in view of the probability that if repatriated this man would be condemned as a traitor to Germany, he will give an assurance that this father of two British soldiers shall not be made a victim to Prussian militarism?
§ Sir G. CAVEIf the hon. Member will give me the name of the interned man to whom he refers, the case shall be considered.
§ 34. Mr. KINGasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that in Wakefield internment camp there are about 200 men, nominally German, who, through long absence from Germany, ignorance of the German language, and many various ties of long standing, are intensely averse from the idea of being sent to Germany; whether he has made, or will make, inquiries in the various internment camps 1112 as to the number of such cases; and whether he will indicate the authority to which the pro-British interned alien enemies of pro-British sympathy should apply?
§ Sir G. CAVEI have no information which would enable me to confirm the hon. Member's statement, and do not think it necessary to make the inquiries he suggests, as any interned German civilian whom it is proposed to send to Germany, but who wishes to remain in this country, can make a representation to the Advisory Committee, who will consider it and make a recommendation to me.
§ Mr. KINGAre they to make those representations now or will an opportunity be given to them later?