The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01
ALIEN WORKMEN
 ARE NOT WANTED Hustled Out of Germany by
 the Wholesale OFFICIAL REPORT Is OUT Four Thousand Are Elected During the Year 1eo8-Many on Small Pre-
 text-Whoesale Gas Poi
 soninq at Hoerde.
OFFICIAL REPORT IS OUT
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

Berlin, July 31.-Germany's drastically efficient method of dealing with unde- sirable aliens is strikingly illustrated by an official report issued this evening an- nouncing that dring 1908 1000 foreign work men were expelled from the country.
 The authorities were animated by va- rious motives in carrying out these expul- sions. Numerous foreign workmen were expelled for no other reason than that they were guilty of breaches of contracts into which they had entered with their German employers. Those foreign work men who had failed to fulfill the condi- tions of their agreements with German employers of labor were ordered by the police to leave the country, and were kept under strict police supervision until they had been elected beyond the from tiers of the country.
 Other foreign workmen were expelled because they conducted themselves in a disorderly way, thereby becoming a pub lie nuisance Others, again, were or dered to leave the country because they perpetrated different offenses which brought them into collision with the Ger man law
 The majority of the workmen thus ex- pelled were men of Polish nationality from Russia Poland and Galicia.
 A case of whoesale gas poisoning which bordered on a catastrophe oc- cured late on Friday night at the little Westphalian town of Hoerde under re- markable circumstances.
 The main gas pipe, which connects the smelting furnaces with the mines had been cleaned, and some one forgot to close one of the ventilators. When the gas, was again turned on the fumes escaped in a terrible volume and with great swiftness. filling the entire neighborho All the persons in the street at the time fell to the ground inseusible and those hastening to their assistance met the same fate. Soon the whole street was filled with ap- parsntly dead and dying people.
 The fumes even penetrated the houses In the vicinity. More than one family at supper fell unconscious from their eats. The panic was indescriba- ble. The alarm signals were sounded and the gas was finally turned off.
 Doctors, assisted by police and fire men, conveyed the victims numbering over 100, in cabs, carts and furniture vans to the hospital. which was be- sieged throughout the night by anxious relatives. Happily no case proved fatal, though many were several hours re- gaining consciousness.
 All were considered able to leave the hospital today.
 Those who. in the beginning of March last, during the recent Balkan crisis fol- lowed tho opening reports of the trial of bz gerDro-Croatians, at Agram, or Zagreb the capital of Croatia-slavonia, on the charge of conspiripg against the Hun garian monarchy, supposed that the case, founded on obviously trumped up or completely irrelevant evidence. had long since fallen to the ground. They may be surpr1sed to hear that the so-called trial Is not yet half through. although the eighfy-eishth hearing was reached on Sat urday night, and that the witnesses for the prosecution are still being examined At any rate the case will last at the low est computation. 10 the end of the year. when the costs will have amounted to something like q 10000. Yet 1t was only too clear first from my report of tho opening stages Of the trial. which then attended as your special correspondent,