The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-21
MysteriousIy Reopen Cafes and
Stores Owing to Laxity of
Government.
MANY STAYED DURING War
Remained in Old Haunts Without
Molestation From Police-Many
Drift in Through Swiss From
tier Since Armistice.
BY BURR PRICE. =.
In the New York Herald.

TdrlS. IHey are living W1lnOuL Oil
guise in the capital, still technically q
armed camp of a In greater nur
Der, in holder manner, they are livir
in the outlying districts, just beyon
the Notifications.
They are resuming the proprieto
ship of small cafes-as by magic the
are popping up with smiles behind tn
little zinc bars from which they disaI
peared so precipitately in 1911
Whence came they? Have they bee
hiding in their own wine cellar
throughout the last four years?
They are renewing the direction O
small restaurants, where sauerkrau
once was the specialize de la maison
go into the kitchens now and Their
you will find the perspiring Teutons
Have they been hiding behind thei
stoves during the war?
ReEngaging in Trade.
They are reopening corner grocery
stores-only that's not the name fol
them in France-and little businesses
Of all sorts. They are now freely en-
gaging in the supply trade-it has
been found that throughout the long
hostilities many Germans who had sue
ceeded in remaining in French terri
tory had piled their business Of fur
nishing var material to the army.
ScOrn for such t%raitorous swine who
would sell death-producing stuff for
use against their own countrymen is
minimized by establishment 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 police
are completely tied by the fact that
80 per cent of the Germans who re-
manned or have been drifting back are
n~aturalized as Frenchmen, and the
chamber, with characteristic procras-
tination, keeps putting. off passage Of
the proper measures to take this nat
uralization from the Germans and per-
NIT the police to GUST them.
An Illuminating article was pub
lished in La Liberte the other eve
ming signed by H. CALI.
zone wonders at finding in the midst
Of the entrenched camp of Paris SO
many enemy subjects" he says. "There
has w been at any time SO many
foreigners in Paris. I do not mean Wis
Itors here temporarily, but people
stopping permanently, doing business,
exploiting enterprises and all too often
the jobs of modified French
men. Nothing has been done to keep
undesirable citizens out.
"In December, 1914, Mr.. Laurent,
Who was then project of police, stated
hat 10000 aliens were settled in the
Today, according to the Of
icial figures, there are 171,0O0. The
treat majority stay here without au-
horization. The special commission
famed to investigate foreigners and
permits for residence has been
Inable to pass upon more than $4,000
Three thousand permissions
yere granted and the same number Of
efusals were made.
Stayed in Spite Of All.
9TH mho did NOT rot tba propor
succeeded in staying anyway,
all measures taken to put them
ut of the country. This they accom-
lished by disappearing for a short
me and returning to the same adj
ress, or changing their residence and
ailing to register. About n hun
red who practiced these receptions
ere caught and sent to concentration
and another hundred were es-
)rted to the frontiers.
''The most undesirable often avoided
and investigation. What risk
d they run? None at ALL"
These figures on the number of for
living in Paris during the war
i'd the number of them officially ap-
owed will be interesting for Ameri-
who have been through the or
al of getting matriculation papers,
rmits to live temporarily, permits
live permanently, certificates of !:
and other little scraps of pa :
It strikes me that the French /:
lice were a bit ~overzealous in cata- :
yuing good, honest Americans !:
ople from home, l know, were most
rupulous in appearing before the
oper authorities-while thousands G
real undesirables were roaming 7
ound unticketed, unmolested.
At the time the Bertha was firing
IRE was much speculation on wheth-
or not the Germans got quick indi- p
ion of the accuracy of their aim,
/ it doesn't seem at all improbable
t with such a large number of their A
Germans here they had a good
rking information bureau.