Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 22, 1919, Page 7

| ’ GERMANS AGAIN w - TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1919 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER APPEAR IN PARIS 7 ‘Stores Owing to Laxity of Government, - A MANY STAYED DURING WAR | Remained in- Old Haunts Without Molestation ' ‘From Police—Many Drift In-Through 8wiss Fron. tier Since Armistice. By BURR PRICE. ‘In the New York -Herald, ] Parls—Mysteriously, ' steadily, :bra- genly in defiance of a law of the land, the Germans are reappearing in Paris. . They are living without dis- guise in the capital, still technically an armed camp of war. - In greater num- ber, in bolder manner, they are living in the ‘outlying districts, just beyond the fortifications. They are resuming the proprietor- .. Ship ‘of small cafes—as by magic they are popping up with smiles behind the little zinc bars from which they disap- _peared 80 precipitately in 1914, Whence came they? Have they been “hiding in’ their own wine cellars throughout the last four years? They are renewing the direction of small restaurants, where sauerkraut once was the “specialite de la maison” ;Ko into the kitchens now and there you will find {he perspiring Teutons. Have they been hiding behind their " ‘stoves giring the war? " Re-Engaging in Trade. They are reopening corner grocery ‘stores—only ‘that’s not the name for +them in France—and littie businesses of all sorts. They are now freely eng gaging in the supply trade—it has ‘been found that throughout the long hostilities many Germans who had suc- ceeded in remaining in French terri- tory hed plied their business of’ fur- nishing war material to .the army. " *"8corn for such traitorous swine who would sl death-producing stuff for uge against thelr own countrymen is minimized by astonishment at the laxity of the French government in permitttng them such a practice. For the last- few weeks Paris ¢ity officials- have been investigating the presence of so many Germans, and it has been found that while a few have been-in their old haunts: without mo- lestation from the police during the war period the greater number have been drifting in through the Swiss frontier since the signing of the armistice. At present the hands of the police . are completely tied by the fact that 90 per cent of the Germans who .re ‘mained or have been drifting back are naturalized as Frenchmen, and the chamber, with characteristic procras- tination, keeps putting off passage of the proper measures to take this nat- ' wralization from the Gerwuns and per- mit the police to oust them. An illuminating article wsas pub- lished in La Liberte the other eve- ~ ning signed by H. Galli. " “One wonders at finding in the midst of the entrenched camp of Paris so many enemy subjects,” he says. “There has never been at any time so many foreigners In Paris. I do not mean vis- itors| here temporarily, but people stopping permanently, doing business, exploiting enterprises and all too often taking the jobs of mobilized French- men. Nothing has been done to keep these undesirable citizens out. “In December, 1914, Mr. Laurent, who was then prefect of police, stated .that 150,000 aliens were settled in the capital. Today, according to the of- ficial figures, there are 171,000. The great majority stay here without au- thorization. The special commission named -to investigate foreigners and issue permits for residence has' been unable to pass upon more than 38,000 cases. Three thousand permissions were granted and the same number of refusals were made. Stayed in Spite of All. “Those who did not get the proper permits succeeded in staying anyway,| despite all measures taken to put them out of the country. This they-accom- plished by disappearing for a short time and returning to the same ad- dress, or changing thelr residence and failing to register. About one hun- dred who practiced these deceptions were caught and sent to concentration camps and another hundred were es- corted to the frontiers. “The most undesirable often avolded detection and investigation. What risk did they run? Nene at all.” These figures on the number of for- reigners living in Paris during the war and the number of them officially ap- proved will be interesting for Ameri- cans who have been through the or- ‘deal of getting matriculation papers, ,permits to llve_tempomrlly, permits to live permanently, certificates’ of domicile and other little Scfaps of-pa- per. It strikes me that the French police were a bit overzealous in cata- loguing good, honest Americans— i people from home, I know, were most ecrupulous in appearing before the: proper authorities—while thousands ‘of real undesirables were roaming |around unticketed, unmolested. At the time the Berthn was firing ithere was much speculation on wheth- ! er or not the Germans got quick fndl ' cation of the accuracy of their alm, and it doesn’t seem at all improbable . that with such a large number of their brother Germans here they had a good working Information bureaun. « . The American Defense society has the toys made by disabled soldiers at t! on exhibition and sold. One half of the proceeds goes to the soldiers and the 1 will put you on the road to -other half to help buit up the workrooms, 192 SURGEONS DEAD: Total Casualties of American Medical Service 442. Discharges From Army Alr Service Total 109,247 Officers and Enlisted Men. Washington—Casualties among American medical officers in France from the time of the arrival of the. first units to March 13 numbered 442. A war department statement showed | - 46 killed in action, 22 died of wounds, 12 died. of accident and other causes, 101 died of disease, 4 lost at sea, 7 missing in action, 38 taken brisouer and wounded in actton. Discharges from the army air service to March 13 totaled 109,247 officers, cadets and enlisted men. The total strength of the service at the end of hostilities was 190,527. Chambers of commerce of the coun- try were requested, in letters sent by. Chairman Arthur Woods of the emer-- gency employment committee for sol: diers and sailors, to urge returning. men to ga to their own homes and take their former jobs, if _unuble to obtain better positions immediately. i Tendency of the discharged soldiers and sailors to linger in large cities, Chairman Wood's letter suid, ie a diffi- culty of the employment organization’s enterprise, H “Many soldiers feel that they are qualified to have better positions tl)un beforc the war. In this they dre right, far the war has made them better wen,” Mr. Woods wrote. “Unfortunate- ly, this is a hard time in which to make improvement, for industry is in a peri- od of transition. E ~ “The soldier should be urged to go back to his home town and, unless a better position can be obtained for him, take his old job. He should work for a better position from his old one, and not from a state of unem- ployment.” The chambers of commerce were urged to have all soldlers’ and sailors’ employment societies co-operate with the federal bureau, and, also, to pro- vide for transportation of men strand- ed away from home. CUB BEAR STARTLES TOWN Makes Kitchen Look Like It Had Been Hit by Shell. A cub bear, about ten months old, caused much excitement when It walked into Moose Lake, Minn., and seratched at the back door of a res taurnnt. The cook thought It was the owner’s dog. Her discovery that it was not began a serles of activities in the kitchen which could have been equaled only by the bursting of a high- explosive shell. When the cause of the disturbance vas ‘learned the men of the town formed an escort and drove the cub back to its haunts. - Bears are protect- ed by law, and for that reason it wasg nol killed. 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