ALIENS LEAVING AMERICA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1221, 7 June 1919, Page 2

ALIENS LEAVING AMERICA.

THOUSANDS GOING HOME

Although a steerage passage to France and Italy costs from £l6 to £l9. which was the eabiH rate before tRe war, the rush of alien emigration eontiraues unabated, says a New York paper. The Customs Intelligence Bureau is thronged all day, and hundreds stand in a line waiting to get their passports stamped. They are mostly Italians, with a percentage of Poles," Greeks, Spaniards, Serbs, Roumanians. Slavs, and Albanians. These Aliens, who come from all parts of the United States carry with them from £750 to £ISOO, the savings they have drawn from the banks, to take back to th*ir own country. They ax*e leaving, it is said, because of the slacking down of war industries, with the corresponding drop in the wage scale, tie ruin of the wine industry m California, and prohibition, which incomes law next July. Tim tfiird-class accommodation in the French and Italian steamships are jammed to capacity every voyage, sonic of them carrying as many as 2220, which is a large number for the Mediterranean trade. Shipping agents claim that the rush to Middle and Southern Europe when the peace treaty is signed will exceed a million people. During the month of February the number of emigrants from the United States to Europe was 10,854, and the total for the present month promises to go much higher.