ENGLAND'S EMIGRANTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 582, 5 July 1913, Page 2

ENGLAND'S EMIGRANTS.

The Hood of emigration is regarded with something like alarm in certain quarters at Home, where a realisation is growing that the dominions are takinfg the very people the Mother Country can least easily spare. Five thousand people have sailed from Bristol to Canada since the beginning of ths year," says "Pjblic Opinion" in a recent issue. "Two hundred emigranti a week have been leaving Devonshire for months past to the alarm of the farmers. And the total is said to be 14,000 for the last eighteen monthß. Last week one Allan liner took 1000 passengers to Canada from Liverpool, while another F Allan liner took 160 direct to Canada from Plymouth. Of this last ship the report is that'the fine type of emigrant leaving the Old Country was particularly noticeable. In Cornwall the failure of the fisheries has set hundeds to Canada. The same tale is told if you go north, and the weekly sailings to Canada from the Clyde are on the biggest scale and are distressing so far as they depopulate Scotland. The advance bookings at all ports show that the tide is still far from the ebb.' But the Conservatives still protest angrily that Liberal, schemes for openirg the idle lands of Britain to the people are uwarrantable interference with the sacred liberties of the landowners.