TOUR OF THE WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 4

TOUR OF THE WORLD

CONDITIONS IN EUROPE NIGHT SCENES IN PARIS SCREECHING COMMUNISTS (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, May 31; The only signs; of popular discontent or unrest , seen oh the by Mr H. N. Baylis, a prominent Detroit; .-business man who arrived at Auckland by the,Mariposa from Sydney on a holiday tour embracing England, - France,. Egypt, India, and Australia,, were- in Paris before last year’s elections. In Great Britain although re-armament was engaging the attention of the Government there; - seemed, •he said, as it : was before; the Great War, to be no thought or fear, of an international disturbance.i. In Paris, however. It was almost impossible to sleep at night because of the noise made by bands of Communists who roamed the streets to give vent to their political opinions. Their screeching and yelling went on at all hours, he said, and" he was glad to leave the city. ■ Mr Baylis is an Australian who has lived in the United. States ever since 1920. He is a descendant of a very old Australian pioneering family, his great grandfather, Captain Thomas Baylis, of the 17th English Regiment, having gone out to the infant colony in 1831 after having been captain of the guards' at Edinburgh Castle, where Mr Baylis’s .grandfather, Mr Henry Baylis,; afterwards a police. magistrate at‘Waga Waga, was bbrri. On his mother’s side Mr Baylis is descended from ah American family. When he was 18 years of age Mr Baylis interrupted his studies to become a doctor and enlisted with the 10th -.Army Service Corps, the survivors of which met him at Sydney recently and presented him with a suitcase prominently decorated with a kangaroo and the names of the other members of the corps. In America after the war Mr Baylis. took his degree of bachelor of laws' and then went into the real estate and transport business.. v,V ■/*,'