TREATMENT OF IMMIGRANTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17856, 31 August 1923, Page 9

TREATMENT OF IMMIGRANTS.

CONDITIONS AT ELLIS ISLAND.

(sy OAB^e— psesb absociatiok—combmht.} IICeTAAIiUH AND K.Z. CASUS ASBOCIAXIOJW CAPE TOWN, August 29. A letter from a nian rejected by the American authorities on Ellis Island, tho immigration station at New ¥ork, makes sweeping allegations. He states that children and others died like Hies. The food was unfit for dogs, and everybody was treated like dogs, herded together under filthy conditions. Three hundred and twenty men slept in one dormitory. lumbers were diseased and filthy. . There was no hath nor lavatory. The immigrants were locked up the whole time, excepting for one hour's airing daily. [Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador to Washington, reporting recently to Lord Curzon, i'oreign secretary, regarding the Ellis Island (IS'ew York) immigration stations, recommended that United States consuls should be authorised to refuse visas of passports for .those who obviously would Uo prevented by law from entering America. He further suggested that all immigrants should be either approved or disapproved in their home country. After examining the system of administration, the report said it would be impossible to administer the immigration stations under the existing United States law without hardship, and the tragedy of detention on £liis Island must be hateful to all possessing auy sensibility.]