German Nationals

Treatment in New Guinea and Samoa

GERMAN subjects, in Australia, New Zealand and Brirish Pacific terri tories, are being treated as kindly as is possible, in the circumstances.

In Australia, a considerable number have been interned. These are people whom the intelligence services described as active Nazis, or generally hostile to the democracies. Other German nationals, who are not regarded as hostile, have been placed on parole, and not interned.

The parole system, has been adopted generally in the former German colonies of New Guinea and Western Samoa.

By a “Gazette” published on Septem ber 4. the Administrator of New Guinea ordered all German nationals to register forthwith; to refrain from communicating with the enemy; and to remain in their own homes between sundown and sun rise. German business men, traders, etc., are being allowed to carry on. Only special cases are being dealt with specially. There are 472 Germans in New Guinea (412 Missionaries).

British and Germans have lived to gether on friendly terms in New Guinea and Samoa during many years, and the British naturally are unwilling to impose hardships upon the Germans, if that is unnecessary. War has been declared upon Nazi-ism, rather than upon Germans.