Cheap Continental Tours

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 236, 6 October 1936, Page 9

Cheap Continental Tours

“YOUTH TRAMP” MOVEMENT

DUNEDIN, Oct. 3,

An eight-day tour of Germany costing £5 10s and 16-day holiday spent in Bavaria for £l2 5s decided Mr. George Arras, who has returned to Dunedin from the Continent, to participate in these two inexpensive tours under the aegis of the International Youth Association, London. As well as being a means of seeing show places of the Continent, these youth tramps aro arranged with the object of bringing into contact small groups of different nationalities, and they provide facilities for a' delightful holiday. Mr. Arras said that tbc ideals of Nazi-ism. were a fetish with German youth, who regarded Ilerr Hitler as a god and the saviour of the nation. Hitler shops—establishments where military goods could be purchased—were thickly dotted throughout the country, and ono of Mr. Arras' prized souvenirs is a handsomo knife decorated with the swastika. When Mr. Arras was returning to New Zealand in the Orford in July the Spanish civil war had assumed a grave international aspect, and the skip took 150 refugees from Parma to Gibraltar. Spanish warships were lying at anchor off the Rock preparatory to shelling Algaciras, and their requests for oil fuel met with no responso from the British naval authorities. At Parma two rebel aeroplanes dropped a show'er of pamphlets warning tho inhabitants to surrender or tho town would be bombed. H.M.S. Devonshire lay at anchor near by. Mr. Arras added that, though not palatial hotels, the youth hostels whore tho tourists stayed during tho tramp* were clean and comfortable, and the meals simple but wholesome.