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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936.
THE NEW BEACH
REGULATIONS
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The problem of political refugees is one that is agitating many countries in and out of the Far East. A Paris Correspondent reveals that France alone is har. bouring 2,000,000 such refugcos.
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WO million political refugees are living in France to-day-one for every twenty people In the country. Refugees are so numerous in Paris that an aver- age bus-load of 30 passengers contains at least two..
They are Russians, Georgians, Armenians, Assyro-Chaldeans. and Germans, as well as some Poles, Hungarians, Italians and Spanish grandees.
They have been arriving since 1917, sometimes in Krent waves, some- times only a few at a time. Political up- heavals and the cruel Lyranny of dictators have forced them, to
their leave
homes. their work and their friends, sometimes
HOME of the HUNTED
even their children and parents, husbands or wives,
The first exiles began drifting round the Balkans, and later through Germany, away from the The White Russian Revolution. Terror drovo Ilungarians from their homes in 1920, after the col- Two years lapse of Bela Kun.
On Inter the Fascists marched Rome, and Italians crowded across the frontier, ·
Almost at the same time, the Turkish Revolution swept a mil- lion Greeks out of Asin and who escaped Armenians-those
The massacre-out of Armenia. Assyro-Chaldeans fled at the same time. Marshal Pilsudski's coup d'etat was the signal for an exodus from Poland in 1926,
Then the flight from persecu- tion slowed up for a time, until the end of 1932, when many Germans began to recognise Hitler's hour was at hand, and they were best away. The great wave started in the following March, when Hitler The exodus had seized power. from Germany has gone on ever since, intensified for a time after Braun retreated before the Brown, the Star Plebiscite, when Max Beourge with the remnants of German democracy,
The public, apart from dog- owners who consider their own predilections more than they do the general interests of the com- the munity, will welcome Government's measures in res pect of dors on public beaches. The new regulations, as at present issued; insist on all dogs being on leads when takon to the beaches, but it is evident that the Government is prepared to ban these animals from public beaches altogether. We hope to the prohibition made law when the Bill dealing with the subject again comes before the harshness in its dealings with
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HIS steady march of the hunted is one of the grunniest things in hla
occur in tory. That it should the twentieth century is a re-
proach to what we call civilisa- tion.
France hus been accused of
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often by foreigners whose own Governments will not even tolerate the presence of
meeting. Not only are dogs a noisance and an annoyance on refugees, let alone maintain them. No one would say that the lot of benches;-they-are-also-a-distinct-France's two million refugees was ideal. If it were, there would he'
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of danger, for reasons which are apparent to anyone who gives serious thought to the matter. In its proposals for! the better regulation of beaches, the Government policy in res- pect of the use of tents and simi- lar structures will not, however, command general approval. In lo such parts of the beaches- brief, private.tents on matshed obviously not the most con-
parts-as benches will only be allowed in venient
and occupied by sheds, whilst at nifotted special marked off; no tents are to be Repulse Bay, which is the most permitted in front of matshed accessible beach on the island, tents whatever are to be at the public beaches; whilst at no
defence of the Repulse Bay there will be no allowed. In allotment whatever for private | latter prohibition, it is con- tents. These proposals will be tended that there is already am- a distinct hardship to those who ple accommodation for bathers cannot afford to erect or lease who have not matshed-but matsheds, and they certainly such accommodation is not free in the case of smack of class legislation. The of cost, and, fact is that most of the accessi-families, can easily prove ex- We sco no reason, ble beaches are already largely pensive. appropriated by maatshed where, sufficient space is availa owners, and it will thus be ex-ble, why tents should not be tremely difficult to set aside permitted in front of sheds, adequate areas for those who provided they are erected at a find tents and similar erections specified distance,
therefrom.
an economic method of securing But, on general principles, if a shelter from the sun as well as re-arrangement of existing con- The ditions is necessary, all the dressing accommodation. proposed regulations amount, in major privileges should not bel fact, to confirming matshed accorded to matshed owners, owners in possession of the best who, after all, only hold their spots on our public beaches, to permits on a yearly basis. Far the exclusion of the general fairer to all concerned would it public. The Government de-be to cut down the number of on the more popular clares that regulation of beaches sheds
is an absolute necessity; we benches and thus make it possi- agree, but
such regulation ble to allot an adequate propor- should not be primarily in the tion of the space to those who
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sheds. People who can only afford deal, with no favouritism, is tents will, if the new rules are what is needed in the regulation brought into force, be relegated of our public beaches.
by Jack Sandford
little to say to the courage of the exiles.
But objective examination of the question reveals that France has done more for them than most countries.
She has more than a million of her own unemployed, only a third of whom are receiving relief: the burdens on national Anances are such that the Budget cannot be balanced.
The bulk of the refugees belong Just to those trades and profes- siors that are suffering most in France from overcrowding and un-" employment-in other words, the refugees are not only economically useless, but are a heavy burden.
A few, such as the Oustachis and the, Spanish royalists, have pre- sented a serious political problem for France by getting her into with her friends and trouble neighbours. Proportionately foreigners commit twice as many crimes in France as Frenchmen, One refugee assassinated a Presi- dent of the Republle.
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ENERALLY speaking. she has stood by the protected others and the most deserving with deter
United . Unlike the mination. States, for example, France bas refused persistently to surrender the German refugees whose extra- dition has been sought for Nazi vengeance.
France has granted naturallsa-
tion with such facility in the past. that the authorities are now com- pelled to slow it up for fear of an actual preponderance of foreigners over French people in some dia- trict3. Most
workers manua! among the refugees receive unem- ployment relief on the same terms as Frenchmen.
The State hospitals of Parks treat 24,000 foreigners free every year, the majority being refugees, The Government has issued a postage stamp. 40 per cent, of the receipts of which go as a voluntary contribution to the Nansen Office for Refugees.
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TILL, conditions are cer- tainly not ideal. There poor are wretchedly tellows who never learned to work before they went into exlie and who must now beg for n living during the daytime and sleep in the damp cellars of half-bulit apartment blocks round the walls of Paris at night.
Occasionally they commit salcide: more frequently they are Laken to hospital suffering from injuries received in a brawi ovèr a crust. or dying from, exposure. These are White Rassians;
There are also refugies at the. other end of the scale--wealthy Russian and .German flannelers: prosperous and successful doctors who, managed to. smuggle their moncy away in time and who ye as comfortably here as ever they did in Petrograd or Berlin.
Most of the refugees are between They are there two extremes. scattered all over-the-country, and. exercise an infinity of trades. The biggest group is innt of the Rus- slans, who live in Languedoc or in the mild climate of the Riviera, of the pleasantly reminiscont Crimea, where in the good old days" they 'awned sumptuous holi-
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Now, run over and borrow two eggs from Mrs. Walls, just so she can't think I still am mad at her."..
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Refugees from Nazidom who have found sano- titary in France being supplied with a meal at Toulouse.
day villas (now rest-houses for workers and Soviet Intellectuals). These refugees are on the Rus- slan farms around Toulouse, or, lux the
"Cossak Vulages "as the agricultural colonies are called- between Cannes and Grasse. The older people do not work, if they can help it-they never learned to work. The younger ones cultivate the land and are happier than their ancestors.
The Russiana in Paris live a dif terent life. The princesses become inannequins or stenographer, ne- cording to their personal charm. The princes-on the same priuciple motor-cars or promote
boxing.
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GARY old, generals drive taxi-cabs in the day.
most recklessly, time, at night meet to decide who was responsible for letting the Bolsheviks wh and who is to lead the mythical army gloriously back the Lime to Moscow - "when comes." Sometimes they strike, with their French brothers-of-the- wheel, for betier pay,
In many trades the Russians. have their own unions, divided- until recently-in allegiance be tween the orthodox T.U.C. and (in- explicably enough) the French Communist T.U.C. They are all de- vout and have no fewer than twenty-five churches of their own In and around Paris alone, as well as a theological institute. They have two daily newspapers and more than 150 non-political asso- elations, ranging from that of the walters, to that of the professors.
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LTHOUGH equally given
to noisy political dis- the German cussion. refugers are of a different stamp. Most of them are unused to work- Ing with their hands, though not. with their brains, for they are in- tellectuals.
They are doctors, teachers, writers, lawyers. They belong to all the professions that are just France from now suffering in 'serious' overcrowding.
A number have turned their hands, niore or less successfully. -to business. They sell almont 'every hing. A few of the profes- slonal men have set up profitable.... practices.
The Saarlanders huve been placed by the French authorities on communal farma or similar colonies, as far as possible. Most of them were trained to work with their hands. These colonies are at Ancenis. Caen, Roche-sur-Yon. Montauban and near the Russians, n't Toulouse.
There are two kinds of Itallan refugees, the intellectuals and the The former manual workers. arrived in France before the sert- nus overcrowding of the pro- fessions began, and did not do too badly.
The others have settled down as farm workers, and life
presents no further difficulties for them. Their standard of living is materially higher than it was in Italy, and there is no Duce,
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and
Armenians Assyro-Chaldeans have settled down in the same way, and the. Polish re-
been fugees have
successfully absorbed into industry and com
merce.
The Spaniards arc. "changing. more or less continually. Before the Revolution, extles of, the Left made their home in France. When their cause prevalled, they dashed back jubilantly, to Madfld. Thes train crossed at the frontier th train that was bringing the ef Queen and her triends into exi Jubsequently, the Fascist action brought many of the Jeft people back to join the Roysts in exile. The last electionsent them back again, while the Duc d'Albo and Juan March 1rried pcross the frontier in Franky:
Most of France's refuges will nover return to their hom