SEEING SHOW PLACES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 17

SEEING SHOW PLACES

CHEAP CONTINENTAL TOURS "•YOITTH TRAMP" MOVEMENT •| (bt telegraph —OWN correspondent] DUKEDIN, Friday An eight-day tour of Germany costing £5 10s and 16-day holiday spent in Bavaria for £l2 5? decided Mr. George Arras, who has returned to Dnnedin from the Continent, to participate in these two inexpensive tours under the aegis of thj International iYouth Association, London. As well as being a means of seeing show places of the Continent, these youth tramps are arranged with the object of bringing into contact small groi ps of different nationalities, and they provide facilities for a delightful holiday. Mr. Arras said that the ideals of Jsazi-ism were a fetish with German youth, who regarded Herr Hitler as a god and the saviour of the nation. Hitler shops—establishments where military goods could be purchased—*ere thickly dotted throughout the country, and one of Mr. Arras' prized souvenirs is a handsome knife decorated jrith 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 ship took 150 refugees from Parma to Gibraltar. Spanish warships were lying at anchor off the Rock preparatory to shelling 'Algeciras, and their requests for oil fuel met with no response from the British naval authorities. At Parma two rebel aeroplanes dropped a shower of pamphlets warning the inhabitants to surrender or the town would be bombed. H.M.S. Devonshire lay at anchor near by. /•'/ Mr. Arras added that, though not palatial hotels, the youth hostels where the tourists stayed during the tramps *ere clean and comfortable, and the toeals simple but wholesome.