§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Home Secretary whether he has considered the case of J. H. Wagner, an unnaturalised German, trading in Watling Street; whether he is aware that a petition was presented to the Board of Trade regarding this man by practically every leading house in the textile trade in the City; and why he is not interned?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. Mr. Wagner, who has been more than thirty years in this country and has a British wife and children, was exempted from internment in 1915 on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee, and nothing has since occurred which would justify the withdrawal of the exemption. The continuance of his business is a question for the Board of Trade.