Foreign News: Emigration and Immigration

In view of the fact that Great Britain has spent £400,000,000 ($1,820,000,000.00) since the Armistice on unemployment and that the 1,295,136 army of unemployed is likely to be increased to more than 2,000,000 people during the coming Winter, Premier Baldwin is being pressed to take “definite action.” Many people are advocating extension of the exports credit’s scheme—a scheme which indirectly means industrial subsidies; others suggest new railway construction and electrification projects. The Premier answered all these queries: ” The policy of the Government is being directed earnestly toward settlement of the reparation problem and the establishment of sound and stable economic conditions throughout Europe, and eventually to the development of imperial resources and an increase of inter-empire trade.” It is expected that a relief for the unemployment tangle will be sought in the Imperial Conference which meets in London in October. During the last quarter nearly 1,000 aliens failed to obtain permission to enter Britain. In this period 87,953 aliens, including those in transit, landed in Britain, 74,633 embarked and permission to land was denied to 926. The corresponding figures for last year: 87,616 aliens landed, 74,213 embarked, 704 were refused permission to land.