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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 21

Several recent Court cases have revealed that unwanted foreigners are somehow able to slip, through the fingers of the immigration authorities and enter Britain unobserved. Stricter precautions are. therefore, being taken, especially on the Thames, where it is believed that many of these aliens make their entry. At the big ports and docks it is practically impossible for a foreigner to escape scrutiny, but many small coasting vessels go up tne Thames without being obliged. to take an English pilot aboard. It is comparatively easy for a passenger to pose as one of the crew and to land at a riverside jetty, or to put ashore m a rowing boat after dark. Some skippers will land an alien in England for a. i« or £.15. One reason for the, closer police watch on the Thames B that Austrian and Spanish refugees aw thought to be using this mHww • [ getting into England.