The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-04-22
GERMANS AGAIN
APPEAR IN PARIS
MySteriously Reopen Cafes and
Stores Owing to Laxity of
Government.
MANY STAYED DURING WAR
Remained in Old Haunts Without
Molestation From Pollce-Many
Drift in Through Swiss From
tier Since Armistice.
BY BURR PRICE.
In the New York Herald

In the New York Herald
Parls.-Mysteriously, steadily, bra
zenly in defiance of a law Of The
land, the Germans are reappearing II
Paris. They are living without dis
guise in the capital, still technically al
armed camp Of war. In greater mum
ber in bolder manner, they are living
in the outlying districts, just beyond
the Notifications.
They are resumlng the proprietor
ship of small cafes-as by magic they
are popping up with smiles behind the
little zinc bars from which they disap-
peared so precipitately in 1914.
Whence came they? Have they been
hiding in their own wine cellars
throughout the last four years?
They are renewing the direction of
small restaurants, where sauerkraut
once was the Specialize de la maison"
go into the Kitchens now and there
you will find the perspiring Teutons.
Have they been hiding behind their
stoves during the war?
Re-Engaging in Trade.
They are reopening corner grocery
stores-only that's not the name for
them in France--and little businesses
of all sorts. They are now freely en-
gagng in the supply trade-it has
been found that throughout the long
hostilitles many Germans who had sue
ceeded in remaining in French terri
tory had piled their business Of fur
nishing war material to the army.
Scorn for such traitorous swine who
would sell death-producing stuff for
use against their own countrymen is
minimized by astonishment at the
laxity Of the French government in
permitting them such a practice.
For the last few weeks Paris city
officials have been investigating the
presence Of so many Germans and it
has been found that while a few have
been in their old haunts without mo-
lestation from the police during the
war period the greater number have
been drifting in through the Swiss
frontier since the signing of the
armistice.
AT present the hands Of the rolice
are completely tied by the fact that
80 per cent of the Germans who re-
mained or have been drifting back are
naturalized as Frenchmen, and the /
chamber, with characteristic procras-
tination, keeps putting off passage Of
the proper measures to take this nat |
from the Germans and per-
NIT the police to oust them.
An Illuminating article was pub
lished in La Liberte the other eve
ming signed by II. CALI.
"One wonders at finding in the midst
of the entrenched camp of Paris so
many enemy subjects" he says. "There
has never been at any time so many
foreigners in Paris. do not mean Wis
tors here temporarily, but people
stopping permanently, doing business,
exploiting enterprises and all too often
aking the jobs Of mobilzed French
nen. Nothing has been done to keep
hese undesirable citizens out.
'In December, 1914, Mr. Laurent.
yho was then prefect of police, stated
hat 10000 aliens were settled in the
apital. Today according to the Of
cial figures, there are 171OOO. The
reat majority stay here without an
The special commission
amed to investigate foreigners and
isue permits for residence has been
nable to pass upon more than $4,000
asses. Three thousand permissions
ere granted and the same number of
efusals were made.
Stayed in Spite Of All.
"Those who did not get the proper
ermits succeeded in staying anyway,
espite all measures taken to put them
1t Of the country. This they accom-
ished by disappearing for short
me and returning to the same adj
'ess or changing their residence and
ling to register. About one hun
ed who practiced these deceptions
ere caught ana sent to concentration
mps and another hundred were es-
rted to the frontiers.
''The most undesirable often avoided
lection and investigation. What risk
! they run? None at ALL"
These figures on the number of for
gners living in Paris during the war
d the number of them officially ap-
owed will be interesting fer Ameri-
MS who have been through the or
al of getting matriculation papers,
rmits to live temporarily, permits
live permanently, certificates of
micile and other little scraps of pa
+. It strikes me that the French
lice were a bit overzealous in cata-
-uing good. honest Americans
ople from home, 1 know, were most
upulous in appearing before the
per authorities-while thousands
real undesirables were roaming
,und unticketed, unmolested.
It the time the Bertha was firing
re was much speculation on wheth-
or not the Germans got quick indi-
ion of the accuracy of their aim,
it doesn't seem at ali improbable
{ with such a large number of their
ther Germans here they had a good
rl1ing information bureau.