The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-01
Pitiful Scenes Enacted al European Ports of Debark-
 ation for America.

BREMEN, Germany Feb. 1.- Hundreds of emigrants who come
 into Bremen, Hamburg and Danzig to seek new homes in America are rejected before they can embark for what to them is the land of plenty and promise Tragic scenes are .num- erous when the ships physicians an nounce the list of those barred be- cause of signs of disease or disability which would prevent their admission to the United States
 One hundred homeseekers were rejected out of 500 who attempted to leave Bremen on one steamer re cently All these unfortunates were not defective but the rejection ot cases prevented the entire group from sailing for America.
 The most pitiful of the tragedies occur in the breaking up of family groups when some children old enough to travel alone are allowed to proceed to America, while others gre detained. Weeping mothers among the hundred rejected the other day tried to kiss the hands Of the physicians in an effort to get them to alter their diagnoses while scared groups of bundel-laden emi- grants stood by in terror lest some technicality might also keep them off the steamer train for Bremen haven.
 Families Broken Up One Polish woman, the widow Of an army surgeon and her 16-year old son had been rejected at DanziS when the steamer had touched there because the boy had conjunctivitis The woman came with her son by train to Bremen and pleaded for an other examination there, but the physicians adhered to their original diagnosis and the woman was com pelled to remain with her son. In several cases one child in a family of five or six showed traces Of trachoma or conjunctiyitis. This was to break up the family group, some of the members of which might go to America while others could not
 Typhus, trachoma and favus. an affection of the scalp, are the three diseases from which ships physicians seek above all others in examining emigrantS from Poland and other war areas destined for the United States. The United States emigra- tion officials are slow to admit per sons whose eyes are not normal and force the steamship line to carry them back to their port of embarka tion. Besides fine of $200 may be imposed upon the steamship com panies for carrying such persons to American ports.
 Few Chances Taken.
 Consequently. agents of the steam ship lines take few chances in these days when there are hundreds Of emigrants clamoring for every steer age passage available from Danzig. Bremen and Hamburg to the United States.
 Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Poland are pouring streams ot pros pective emigrants into these three ports and the steamer lines are forced to exert every effort to check them from congregating at Hamburg and Bremen in larger numbers than can be accommodakd. Model, sani- tary quarters are Available in these two ports for emigrants, but the con ditions are far less satisfactory in Danzig where many complaints are made concerning the emigrant quart CTS and charges are made that they are not free from yermin.
 In Wretched State.
 The refugees who flock into Dan zig are generally in wretched state when they arrive from the de- vsstated parts of Poland and the Baltic States Their accommodations ! there are old and unsanitary. Polit- icaI cross-current sand divided auth | ority keeping shipping in Dauai2 in