UNREST IN PARIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 11

UNREST IN PARIS

BANDS OF COMMUNISTS

IMPRESSIONS OF EUROPE

The only signs of popular discontent or unrest seen on the Continent by Mr. fl. N. Baylis, a prominent Detroit business man who arrived at Auckland this week from Sydney on a holiday tour embracing England, France, Egypt, India an I Austialia, were in Paris -before last year's elections.

In Great Britain, although rearmament was engaging the attention of the Government, there seemed, he said, as it was before the Great War, to lie no thought or I’oar of an intciniitioiial disturbance. In Paris, however, it was almost impossible to rh ep at night beenuso of the noise made by the bands of Communists who rovco the streets to give vent to their po.iitcal opinions. “Their screeching ami yelling went on at all hours,’’ he said, and lie was glad to leave the city. Mr. Baylis is an Australian who has .lived in the United States since IU2O. He is a. descendant of a very old Australian pioneering family, his greatgrandfather, Captain Thomas Baylir, of the .17til English Bggiment, having

gone out to the infant colony in 1831, after having been captain of the Guards at Edinburgh Castle, where Mr. Baylis’ grandfather, Henry Baylis afterward police magistrate at Wagga Wagga, was born. On his mother’s side Mr. Baylis is descended from an American family. When he was IS years of ago, 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 eo.ps. In America after the war-Mr. Baylis took is degree of bachelor of laws and then went into the real estate and transport business.