§ 92. Major HUNTasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that numbers of Russians and Poles in this country are advocating revolution; and whether the police have direct instructions to attend the meetings at which they speak and arrest them if they break the regulations of the Defence of the Realm Act?
§ Sir G. CAVENo meeting of Russians or Poles in connection with a movement of the character described has come to the knowledge of the Metropolitan Police; if such a meeting should he held the police will be ready to deal with it.
§ Major HUNTDid not M. Litvinoff, the agent for the Revolutionary Government in Russia, exhort British workmen at Nottingham to go in for revolution here, and are not some of these Russian Jews really German, and are these Russian Jews and Poles still allowed to come freely into this country?
§ Sir G. CAVENo one is allowed to come to this country without full inquiry and without giving the fullest possible information.
§ 93. Major HUNTasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that Russians and Poles now in this country are taking the businesses and occupations of our own men called up for service; whether these businesses and occupations will be restored to our men after the War; and can he say when Russians and Poles of military age will be compelled either to join our Navy or Army or to go back to their own country?
§ Sir G. CAVEI would refer the Lon and gallant Member to the Convention entered into with the late Russian Government wider the Military Service (Conventions with Allied States) Act.
§ Major HUNTCan the right hon. Gentle-man answer the first part of the question?
§ Sir G. CAVENo; it is too general for me to answer, but if my hon. Friend will state any particular case I will endeavour to ascertain the facts.
§ 94. Major HUNTasked the Home Secretary if he can say how many people of alleged Swiss nationality have been granted permits to reside in the United Kingdom since the beginning of the War?
§ Sir G. CAVENo such permits to reside are required by aliens of Allied or neutral nationality.
§ Major HUNTHas the right hon. Gentleman taken any steps to ascertain whether some of these people claiming Swiss nationality are not really German-Swiss or German aliens, and is he aware that there is a great feeling that a great many of those people are really German?
§ Sir G. CAVEAliens have to register, and are required to produce satisfactory proof of nationality.