FOREIGNERS IN LONDON.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13458, 2 July 1912, Page 2

FOREIGNERS IN LONDON.

Tho last available statistics of London's population are for 1909, and snow that 38,000 Russians, 27,500 Germans, 15,500 Poles, 12,000 French, 10,800 Italians, 4500 Swiss, 4200 Dutch, 5561 Americans, 2800 Norwegians and Swedes, 7000 Austrians find over 8000 persons of other foreign nationalities were domiciled in London. The greater number of foreigners are said to be peaceful, law-abiding citizens. Sometimes, as in the case of Russians and Poles, they go to London to escape military service, but the majority are driven out of their own countries through lack of employment. Whether they are Russian and Polish tailors, bootmakers and cabinetmakers, or German clerks and agents, or Italian paviors or workers in mosaic, their object in London is to make money. It is to their credit that being in the main sober, very industrious and thrifty, they do acquire wealth, especially in the tailoring, bootmaking and furniture trades.