Mr. THORNEasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the following alien enemies: Wildenbach, Upton Manor; Kop, East Ham; Lewin, Stratford; Spenkel, Leyton; Stoffel, Ilford; and Scott, Canning Town, have been released from internment camps and are now engaged in the occupation of hair-dressing, and filling the places of and taking the trade of English hairdressers who have enlisted; and if he will state the number of alien enemies released from internment camps since 1st January, 1916, with their ages and occupations?
Mr. SAMUELI have only been able to trace two of the six persons mentioned, both of whom were exempted from internment on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee. One of them, Lewin, though a German subject, is a Pole by race and has been thirty-eight years in this country; the other, Stoffel, has been here thirty-three years and has an English wife and a son in the British Army. Stoffel was never interned; Lewin was interned in May last and released on the Committee's recommendation in October. If the hon. Member will send me the names and addresses of the others, inquiry will be made. For particulars of the persons released since 1st January last it is necessary to refer in detail to the records of the individual cases. Perhaps the hon. Member will put down this part of his question again a week hence.