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· FRIDAY, JUNE. 26, 1936.

THE NEW BEACH REGULATIONS

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- peet of dogs on public beaches. The new regulations, as at present issued, insist on all dogs being on lends when taken to the benches, but it is evident that the Government is prepared to ban these animals, from public beaches altogether. We hope to

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the prohibition made law when the Bill dealing with the subject again comes before the Legislative Council at its next meeting. Not only are dogs. nuisance and an annoyance on beaches; they are also a distinct source of danger, for reasons which are apparent to anyone who gives serious thought to the matter.

The problem of political refugees is one that is agitating many countries in and out of the Far East. A Paris Correspondent Freveals that France alone is har- bouring 2,000,000 such refugees.

wo million political refugeen are living in' France to-day-one for every twenty people in the country. Refugees are so numerous in Paris that an aver- ago bus-load of 30 passengers contains at least two.

They are Russians, Georgians, Armenians, Assyro-Chaldeans and Germans, ds well na some Poles, Hungarians, Italians and Spanish grandees.

They have been arriving since 1917. sometimes in great waves. БОЛО times only a low at a time. Political up- heavals and the cruel. tyranny of dictators have forced them to leave their 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 Russian Revolution. The White Terror drove Hungarians from their homes in 1020, after the col- lapse of Bela Kun. Two years later the Fascists marelied on Rome, and Italians crowded across the frontier.

Almost at the same me, the Turkish Revolution swept a mil- llan Grecka out of Asia and Armenians—those who escaped massacro-out of Armenia.

The Assyro-Chaldeans filed'at the same tinic. Marshal Pilsudski's coup d'etat was the signal for an exodus from Poland in 1926.

Then the flight from persecu- on 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 had seized power.

The exodus

from Germany has gone on ever since, intensified for a time after the Baar Plebiscite, when Max Braun 'retreated before the Brown Scourge with the remnants of German democracy.

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HIB stendy match of the hunted is one of the grimmest things in his- tory. That it should occur in the twentieth century is, a re-

proach to what we call civilsa-

on. harshness in its dealings with refugees.

France has been accused

of

often by. foreigners whose own Governments will not even tolerate the presence of refugees, let alone maintain thiçm.

No one would say that the lot of

France's two million refugees was

ideal. If it were, there would be

Today's Thought- INGRATITUDE'S the weed of every clime; it thripes too fast at first, but fades in time.

-GARTH.

are Un-

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 to such parts of the beaches~~~ brief, private tents on matshed obviously not the most con- beaches will only be allowed inveniant pants-as special areas allotted and occupied by sheds, whilst at marked off; no tents are to be Repulse Bay, which is the most permitted in front of matsheds accessible beach on the island, at the public beaches; whilst at no tents whatever are to be Repulse Bay there will be no allowed. In defence of the 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 whole accommodation for bathers cannot afford to erect or lease who have not. matsheds-but mutsheds, and they certainly such accommodation is not free smack of dass legislation. The of cost, and, in the case of fact is that most of the accessi-families, can easily prove ex- ble beaches are already largely pensive. We see no reason. appropriated by matshed 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- dressing accommodation. Theditions is necessary, all the proposed regulations amount, in major privileges should not be 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 debe to cut down the number of clares that regulation of beaches sheds 011 the more popular is an absolute necessity; we beaches 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 interests of the owners of mat-can only afford tents. - A fair sheds. People who can only afford deak with no favouritism, is tonts 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 for the courage of the exlics.

But objective examination of the question reveals that Frauke has done more for them than most countries. Blic has more than a million of her own unemployed. only a third of whom are receiving relief; the burdens on national finances are such that the Badget cannot be balanced,

The bulk of the refugees belong just to those trades and profes slons 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 trouble with her friends and neighbours. Proportionately foreliners commit twice as many crimes in France as Frenchmen. One refugee assassinated a Presl- dent of the Republic.

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ENERALLY speaking. she has stood by the others and protected the most deserving with deter- miniation. Unlike the United States, for example, FranceTM has refused persistently to surrender the German refugees whose extra- dition has been sought for Nuži vengeance.

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 forefgnérs over French people in some dis- tricts. Most manual workers among the refugees receive wiem- ployment relief on the same terms as Frenchmten.

The State hospitals of Paris treat 24.000 foreigners from every year, the majority being refugers. The Government has 1ssued n postage stamp, 40 per cent of the receipts of which go an a voluntary contribution to the Nansen Oflice for Refugees,

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TILL, conditions are cer- tainly not ideal. There

wretchedly

poor fellows who never learned to work

are

before they went into exile and who must now beg for a living during the daytime and sleep in the damp cellars of half-built Apartment blocks round the walls of Paris at night.

Occasionally they commit sufelde; more frequently they are taken to hospital suffering from injuries received in a brawl over n erust, or dying from exposure. These are White Russians:

There are also refugees at the other end of the scale-wealthy Russian and German Ananciers, prosperous and successful doctors who managed to smuggle their money away in time așa who live as comfortably here as ever they' did In Petrograd or Berlin..

Must of the refugees are between these two extremes. They are senttbred all over the country, and exercise an infiulty of trades, The uggest group is tant of the Rus sians, who live in Languedoc or in the mild climate of the Riviera. pleasantly reminiscent of the Crimen, where In the good old France has, granted naturalisa-days they owned sumptuous holt-

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"Now, run over and borrow two eggs trom Mrs. Watts, just so she can't think I still am mad at her."

Refugees from Nazidom who have found, sane- tuary 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- alan farms around Toulouse, or in to "Cossak Vllages" as the agriculturni colonies are -called-- between Cannes and Grasse. The older people do not work, if they can help they never learned to work. The younger ones cultivale the land and are happier than their ancestors,

The Russians in Parisdive a dif- ferent life. The princesses become mannequins or stenographers, ac- cording to their personal charm. The princes--on the same principle -5011 motor-cars or promote boxing.

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OARY old generals drive

H Laxi-cabs In the day-

time, most recklessly, and

at night meet to decide who was responsible for letting the Bolsheviks win and who is to lend the mythical army gloriously back to Moscow "when the time comes," Sometimes they strike, with their French brothers-of-the- wheel, for better 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- yout and have no fewer than twenty-five churches of their own, in and around Paris alone, as well They as a theological institute. have two daily newspapers and more than 150 non-political asso- clations, ranging from that of the walters to that of the professors.

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LTHOUGH cqually given

to noisy political dis-

"cussion, the German refugees 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 Arc doctors, writers, lawyers.

teachers,

They belong to all the professions that are just now suffering in France from serious overcrowding,

A number have turned their hands, more or less successfully. te business. They sell almost evers-hing. A few of the profes- sional men have set up profitable practices.

The Boutlanders have been placed by the French authorities on communal farms or similar colonies, as far as possible. Most of them were trained to work with their hands. These colonies, are at Roche-sur-Yon. Caen, Ancenis,, Montauban and near the Russians, at Toulouse.

There are two kinds of Italian refugees, the Intellectuals and the manual workers. The former arrived in France before the scri- ous overcrowding of the pro- fessions began, and did not do too badly. The others have settled down as. farm workers, and fe 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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SHE Armenians and

T Assyro-Chaldeans have

settled down in tho same way, and the Polish re- fugees have been successfully absorbed into industry and com- merce.

The Spaniards are changing more or less continually. Before the Revolution, exlics of the Left made their home in France. When their cause prevailed, thoy dashed back Jubliantly to Madrid." Their" train crossed at the frontier the train that was bringing the ex- Queen, and her friends into exile.

Jubsequently, the Fascist re- action brought many of the Left people back to Join the Royalists in exile. The last election sent them back again, while the Duc d'Albe and Juan March hurried across the frontier in France.,,

Most of France's refugees will nover retura to their homes.

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