BAN ON FOREIGNERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 3

BAN ON FOREIGNERS

23,000 FACE RUIN IN TURKEY. ISTANBUL, July 23. Twenty-three thousand persons' dependent on foreign wage-earners in Turkey aro faced with ruin owing to the application of the law which reserves the majority of small trades for Turkish subjects. Among the foreigners who have been forced to abandon work as from yesterday are 2,000 Greeks, 1,000 Italians, 200 British-Maltese, and at least 2,000 others. Within the next year thousands more foreign subjects employed in the following trades will find themselves out of work:—Waiters, hairdressers, tailors, shoemakers, hat-makers, musicians, music hall and cabaret, artists, guides and interpreters, stockbrokers and th|eir clerks, patternmakers and carpenters, motor drivers and mechanics. Foreign Consulates are besieged with requests for repatriation and all sources of relief are already exhausted. Shipping companies whose ships serve almost every European port already have tremendous waiting lists for deck passengers. Unless some immediate and effective action is taken thousands of refugees will become absolutely destitute. Even those workmen and servants who possess small savings are in a ' critical position, for up to now no ; provision has been made to permit them to leave Turkey. Present financial laws prohibit the exportation of capital.