RUSES OF THE ALIEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 11

RUSES OF THE ALIEN.

TRICKS TO ENTER BRITAIN.

SWELLING THE VICE CENTRES.

The conviction of an Italian at Marlborough Street, London, for possessing a forged passport, disclosed one of the methods by which undesirable aliens 6nter tilts cbiihtijj?.

The Jfttan had previously been deported ' frdat Francd arid. Setgittiit;. affd he had'l mbved freely hi the underworld of ton-, don before lie came under the suspicion of detectives engaged in rounding up men who arrange to gain a British | status for undesirable alien women by a marriage ceremony at a register oflice. When the "marriage" is registered the contracting parties never meet again.

Cesar Fabbri, the Italian in question, bought a French Army book, and when he had posed as the ex-soldier named in the book he easily obtained a passport at Boulogne.

An undesirable is not easily circumvented in his desire to land in England. Dozens of men and women who are rejected wee%ly at the ports find many willing to help them in their second attempt to evade the Aliens Act. There are gangs on both sides of the Channel who specialise in evolving new schemes for the benefit of "rejects."

An alien can como and go without muck difficulty if he or she has a bulging pocket. The path is made easy for the person who can pay his helpers well.

Aliens must give good grounds for staying in the country when they arrive at the ports, and it is because the authorities earinot hold up every teller of a plausible tale that many undesirables are lost in the maze of the big cities.

Hundreds of people who come in this way change their identity and their names as soon as possible, and it is only when they fall into the hands of the police for a breach of the law that their stories are found to be untrue.

Aliens have been known to stowaway and then swim ashore with their clothing in a waterproof bag. Such people are invariably men who have lived in England before and know where to find friends.

These undesirables from the Continent do not recruit the burglar gangs, the pickpockets, and the confidence tricksters. More soul-destroying pursuits are their hobbies. They live by immoral practices and trading in illicit drugs.