ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1195, 2 August 1911, Page 5

ALIENS IN BRITAIN.

»- MARKED DIMINUTION OP CRIMINALS. Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Oojjy'rlehl (Rec. August 1. 11 p.m.) London, August 1. The Home Office report on the operation of. the Aliens Act during the last fiveyears shows a marked diminution in the number of alien criminals. Alien immigration has been reduced by two-thirds. THE PENNILESS FOREIGNER. The problem of the alien immigrant was brought vividly before the public mind last year by the Hotmsditch crime. There is stated by "The Times" to be a regular trade among the foreigners for the admission of their compatriots. Arrangements are made in advance by which these workless, penniless, and often worthless persons are enabled to slip through the meshes of the Aliens Act. They are attracted to England because of their knowledge that it is a free country, and by the glowing accounts sent to them by their friends and relations who are already established there. Once they have arrived, they are taken to the sweating tailor or those who make cheap furniture, and they work for almost their bare maintenance in order to scrano a few shillings together and to learn TEnglish. The children learn English very f|\vickly, and they are, as a rule, fairly well nurtured. There is one thing in their favour. The ordinary alien is a hard worker and moderate as far as drink is concerned. But ho is born gambler. Horse-racing is closely followed, not only by the men but by the women, and the bookmakers secure a rich harvest in penny, twopenny, and other small bets. If they are successful in saving any money they leave the East-End and go into other districts, where they will bo free from their original associates, and they in turn begin employing other immigrants on terms as meagro and oppressive as those under which they themselves had to begin. Tho poorer the Jewish immigrant the more attention ho pays to religious observances, and the synagogue and Kosher meat aro indispensable.