Italian Embassies and Italian Consulates. Desirability of Preventing Staffs of, Having Access to Telephonic and Telegraphic Facilities

upset when people were feeling shaken that they were most likely to attempt to get into touch with their agents and make last minute arrangements for future communication. He referred to experience of this which had been gained when large numbers of German nationals had been removed to the Isle of Man for internment. COLONEL CHAMBERS said that it was, to his mind, absolutely incredible that these enemy aliens should not have been put under restraint immediately on the declaration of war. If it were said that any action which we might take against the Italians in this country would provoke counter action against our own nationals in Italy, he considered that the question of whether the latter were subjected to inconvenience or not was a point of trivial importance at a time like the present.