The married aliens’ camp is to be opened at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, on May 1. There will be accommodation at first for 250 families with about 100 children, mostly German Jews. The families will be billeted on the villagers, who will be paid one guinea a head per week for adults.
A number of Germans interned in the Isle of Man have, in response to Lord Derby’s appeal, given permission to the Ministry of Supply to collect binoculars impounded when they entered the camp, it is announced. Refugees from several European countries have also sent binoculars.
About a thousand of the civilian internees in Canada have been returned to Britain, it is announced by Alexander Paterson, the Home Office representative, now at Ottawa. The immigration of a further thousand to the United States has been arranged, he added.
The remainder, with the exception of a certain number who have been released because they have relatives of the first degree in Canada, will remain in internment in Canada for the duration of the war, it is stated.
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