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Vol. VI, No. 7—Established 1911Canadian Authorities Should NabSome of our Prussian GuestsOUR Canadian authorities have been very lax in dealing with enemy aliens. It is said on good authority that the man \'on Alvensleben. since the war broke out, was allowed to pay seven different visits to Vancouver, under protection of officials who might have turned him over to a gaoler if they had done their duty.We are told on good authority that another German is enjoying his liberty in our midst today who .jihould be in an interment camp. His name is Peters and he operated a real estate business at 319 Pender Street West before the war broke out. lie was in Vancouvr only a few days ago.Now Peters is a Prussian by birth and a military man by training. He was a captain in a famous Prussian infantry regiment and is today probably enjoying the title of major in that regiment.The editor of The Standard remembers the visit paid to Vancouver in 1912 of Dr. Paaschc, a vice-president of the Reichstag. The doctor was on a tour to the German colony of Kia Chou in the Orient and while in Vancouver put up at the Hotel Vancouver. The editor, then an employee of the World, was sent to interview the learned Doctor Paasche. The noted German granted an interview and made an appointment with the newspaper representative, who upon entering the apartment of Dr. Paasche came upon one Peters and one Schumacher in great argument at the door.“I take precedence here, Dr. Schumacher,” said Peters. He threw his head hack and his chest out.“I am a Prussian officer,” he declared with some heat.“I shall enter first and then you may come.”Well, a man whose character is considered to be good and whose standing in the community is good, informs us that Peters is today on the payroll of a large concern operating near Vancouver and that he enjoys every liberty any Canadian enjoys. He goes and comes and is never questioned as to his nationality or his loyalty.$e it said to the credit of Peters and several others of Prussian origin who were living in Vancouver in 1912, he complained to Dr. Paasche of the activities here of Von Alvensleben.Peters is said to have told the second vice-president of the Reichstag that Von Alvensleben s activities in Vancouver were of a character injurious to German prestige in British Columbia. He and others urged that Von Alvensleben be curbed and that the Imperial Government discredit the big “count.” Von ' Alvensleben’s friends were too numerous for Peters jand his friends. vWithout endeavoring to place The Standard in competition with the Providence Journal we would f respectfully suggest that the case of Peters be looked j into. He and a few other Prussians who are at pres- t ent running at large in British Columbia would look ^ well on the inside of a fence running about a deten- ^ tion camp. I
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Vancouver Standard
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Jun 30, 1917
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