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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938.
money.
now. men and
Rigid refugee and currency laws brought the modern amug- gler into existence, and until these laws are rescinded men and women will continue to take
THE NEW
SMUGGLING
the big rewards involved.
act.
valuable share total amount
ed an oilskin pouch containing notes of the largest denomina- tions, and had then stitched the appalling risks for the sake of tiers, but prefers to use his in- turn. He asked if the replies wound up again. Once across genuity in getting money out of to his advertisement could be the frontier the smuggler called Events on the Continent over those countries where the smug sent on. The newspaper people on another doctor, was put under the wound can, in very were obliging and, because the a mild anaesthetic, the pouch The smug- the past 10 years have given gling of currency the world many shocks, but bad cases, result in a sentence of paper had high official status, was extracted, and their Jetter to him sailed sewn up once more. ech event, as it occurred, struck death.
without any gler is now living in comfortable One of the earliest devices through the post
been a chill of terror into the hearts
Even chickens have of those likely to be singled out was to purchase large quanti- questions being asked. He has and hard-earned retirement.
pressed into service. One man as victims of a purge. Those ties of valuable stamps, take stayed out of Germany ever
arrested on the Italian-Swiss who could afford it wasted no them out of the country, and since!
frontier was trying to take a RESPONSIBILITY time. They got into touch with realise their value abroad. This done on a large scale in the smuggling gangs that were was
BUT for sheer brilliance number of chickens out of Italy, FOR REFUGEES springing up, and, with their Germany, until the Gestapo saw
few schemes can equal but something went wrong with lives at stake, did not haggle at through the scheme and arrest-
very wealthy Ger- that of a professional smuggler his plans, and the birds' gullets certificate, the The problem which the Evian the price asked for safe conduct ed several
mans who were caught in the who get immense sums out of were ench found to contain a involved being Conference sought to solve is to freedom.
several European countries be- But that reverse only spurred fore the dodge was discovered. one of very considerable diflicut-
is much the smugglers to greater efforts,
This man appeared one day at more than 40,000 lire. ty. I was, in short, to discover
THE price
a frontier station, limping along how best to deal with the many
R crutch. He higher now as a result and huge sums of money, in the
THE battle between nu- | thousands of German and Aus-of the watch kept by certain shape of precious stones, passed with the aid of
thorities and Customs Governments on the movements out of several countries, Ger- told the officials that he had a trian refugees who are being their citizens. But time has many included, safely concealed bad wound in his leg, and was driven into other countries by also helped
the smugglers to in lowing Continental beards. going to have it attended by a goes on unabated, and as soon specialist in another as one exit has been closed an- were other is opened. But unfor- the ruthless "purifiention" of build up organisations that now And when that ruse was detect famous
The ed smugglers promptly opened capital. His belongings
nothing was tunately the results touch coun- searched, but the Nazi regime. Some of these set to work scientifically.
allowed to tries that have nothing to do whole operation, from the forg- several book-binding works, and
cause the fugitives are suffering on ac-
ing of the necessary passports, concealed large sums, in bank- found and he was
pass, to the accompaniment of with the laws that
2 week smuggling. Scarcely count of their pacifist or so- the night dashes across lonely notes, in book covers.
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expressions of sympathy.
it was only after he had made passes without some German be- cialist opinions, but by far the frontiers and the clearing houses set up in other countries, is done
NOTHER man used a dozen trips through the fron- ing held up at a British port, greatest number are persecuted with a skill and slickness that ΑΝ
one of the largest tier that the officials began to and charged with attempting to simply because they are Jews. must earn admiration.
No frontier in Europe is German newspapers to help him get suspicious, and they actual smuggle valuables Britain and the people of the U.S.A. and of the democratic immune. If bribus are needed, in getting a fortune out of the ly examined the leg, touching cameras and optical lenses into the money is soon forthcoming. country. He inserted an adver- the wounded spot to see if it the country. The object, of States of Europe are under- If aeroplanes have to be hired, tisement for a clerk in the paper, was genuine. All they could see course, is to sell them here, and the But these are only taking the responsibility of their | the machines are soon provided, and then laboriously addressed was a long, ugly sear, and when so obtain ready cash.'
The professional It is no longer a case of in more than one hundred replies to they touched it the victim let off absorption partly in a spirit of
but of his own advertisement, each a shriek as if demented with amateurs.
wouldn't think of anything so genious concealment, pity and partly, no doubt, as a high-class organisation to trans- letter containing a large sunt of pain.
He made three more trips in crude. He takes a pride in his police-measure to prevent dis- fer each item of human cargo money in notes. This done, he
from one country to another promptly left for another coun- complete safely and was seen no job, and, judging by the many more. Too inte did the officials tricks that have been devised, orders which are likely to arise
with the greatest possible speed try. from the presence within their and the minimum risk of det.ee- When he arrived at his new learn how they had been hood- he has something to be proud of
wound Way a-his ingenuity. to the winked. The headquarters, he wrote SZAFY |borders of large numbers of tion.
The money smuggler works newspaper and explained that genuine wound, but was not the accident. A sur- aliens, workless, and very often
differently. He does not take he was engaged on a business result of an destitute and
But stateless.
the risk of rushing across fron- utter which prevented his re- geon had opened the leg, insert- some of the more far-seeing among their workers realise that immediate burden whatever may be cast upon them to help these strangers in their dis- tress, there is in the refugees a potential asset. The case of the!
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of every chance of being physically THERE is a general belief that if work is far below even this standard., the whole family for the other three In kind. In fact, they are deprived French Huguenots may come to TH
Increased mechanisation has led days. people are working they must
As the man said: "Just working fit themselves or of rearing healthy
children, Un- to an immense amount of part-time
People talk contemptuously about mind. That, however, is ancient be comparatively well off.
fortunately, this is for from being work in industries where, only a few means starving!"
years ago, everyone was fully em-
workers who are lazy and prefer to history. Far more recently it the case.
be idle, My experience is not that will be remembered how Dr. The unemployed are admittedly ployed. This entulls endless hard-
ships, since, unless a mun is unem- The health of hundreds of thou-they do not want to work-that is, maintained at the bare subsistence ployed for three consecutive days in sanda of familities is being unless they have been unemployed Nansen, working as League of level, but, in many cases, especially any one week, he ran get no help of deliberately destroyed by the miser-and under-nourished for so long that
notable pittance that the breadwinner they have not the starring to Nations High Commissioner for where there are several children, the any kind for the days he is
is pald.
able of working. But so many men Refugees, settled hundreds of family income when the father is in working.
Unemployment is bad enough, cannot get any work that does not of thousands
and people cannot possibly remain reduce the whole family to virtual do Miners conditions afford a glacing healthy for more than a few months starvation, and naturally, they Greece, where their industry on national and international example of the suffering caused by either on Standard Benent or on Un- not want that sort of employmentbord
employment Assistance. And and enterprise has made them lines and must be brought, under-employment and low wages.
power for good in their therefore,
In pracileally all colliery districts horrible part of it is that, in spite of to the Report of the Unemployment scheme
the average wage earned by an adult this, the income of the unemployed Assistance Board for 1937, points out adopted country.
which is almost certain to be miner, after the usual deductions man with a wife and several children that some 30,000
the miner¦ceipt of Public Assists in re- have been made, is about
two is nearly twice that of The work of the Evian Con-adopted at the next Assembly.
guineas for a full week's work. This working four days a week, and more off as they would be if they were re- ference is the better for the fact of the League of Nations, to is tle enough, in all conscience, on than twice that of the collier work-ceiving their normal wages, and he "The position is one that must that its organisers kept in mind co-ordinate all Refugee Work which to keep a wife and children. Ing three days a week spread-over, snys:
to anxiety." Later Often,
however, a 'man gets not six so that he does not have three con- give rise
states that,
they" (the work a week not merely their immediate inder the auspices of
but four days'
for secutive days of unemployment.
disregard their Board) "cannot charitable duty bul con-League and as a responsibility months or even years on end.
primary duty of meeting need." sciousness
Four days' work means an income of the valuable to be borne by League funds.
And i la not only miners' familles human material with which The second comment pertains of 20% a week, since the deductions Tor insurance, welfare, etc., are the they were dealing. Yet the im-to the danger that Germany, same whatever his carnings may be. who suffer in this way. There are
Many of us would argue that Un-- Recently I went to see a family innumerable workers In other trades mediate burden is an important and indeed other countries with in the Rhondda where the father who are in exactly the same posi-employment Assistance is so meagre The tion. What is more, it is not only that it does not, in fact, really Л week. factor in the problem. Two unemployment or Semitic probi-was earning 20s.
Whnt, then, Is the comments:
may be family, which included seven child-the man on short time for whom "meet need." arc necessary, Solems of their own,
ren under fourteen, as well as the working means starving. In some position of the family whose income la for below the wretched standard far, voluntary societies have tempted to use the charity of father and mother, had to live en industries, particularly in the tex-
are fathers of families of the unemployed? The man hades, there raised such funds as they could. neighbours as an easy way of rely on this inco
years till who are forced to do juveniles work Surely it is not too much to ask unemployed for In future very large sums will ridding themselves of nationals been
ten months ago. Since then, he has for as little as 22s. 6d. for a forty-In 1938 that the social conselence of the nation should insist upon meel- be needed, for training, for whom they wish to discard. In been working four days every week, clight hour week.
an occasional red-letter Nor must it be forgotten that for Ing the needs of those who are work- emigration, for preliminary 1937 Germany netted £7,000,000 spurt from which he has worked all those who are registered as working as well as of those who are un- settlement schemes. These may from the properly of emigrants, for three consecutive days only, and ing-that is, people who are not un-employed. run to millions-perhaps even Jewish and Non-Jewish, before so has been able to draw Unemploy- employed for three consecutive days!
for the other ment Beneft
three in any one week-the law does not Barbara as much as a battleship costs they were allowed to escape. It is quite clear such sums are The Evian Conference must not
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