YOUTH TRAMPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 2

YOUTH TRAMPS

TOURS OF CONTINENT 1N EXI m: nstv e tt o ltd a v An eight-dav tour of Germany costing £5 10s "and a 16-day holiday spent, in Bavaria for £l2 ss l decided Mr. George Arras, who has returned to Dunedin from tho .Continent, to participate in these two inexpensive tours under the aegis of the International Youth Association, London. As a means of seeing tho show places of the Continent Mr. Arras is loud in his praise of these youth tramps, which are arranged with the object of bringing into contact small groups of different nationalities and which provide facilities for a delightful holiday. Air. Arras said that the ideals, of Nazism were a fetish with the German youth, who regarded 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 one of Air. Arras’ prized souvenirs is a handsome knife decorated with'a swastika. When ho was returning to New Zealand on tho 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 Algecirns, but their requests for oil fuel met with no response from the English naval authorities. At Panna two rebel aeroplanes dropped a shower of pamphlets warning the inhabitants to surrender or the town would he bombed.. Nearby 11.M.5. Devonshire lay ft'l anchor.