Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-28
MANY EUROPEANS
SEEKING To GET
To j. s. LIFTED
Poles, SIavS and Germans
Turned Back by Steam
ship Agents at Points of
DebarkatiOn
By The associated Press

Thy The associated Preas,)
Bremen, Germany Jan. a.
Hundreds of enigrants who cume
to Bremen, Hamburg and Danzig
Sto seek new homes in America are
rejected before they can embark
Tor what to them is the land of
Hplenty and promise. Instances are
numerous when the ships phys-
clans announce the list of those
barred because of signs of disease
or disability which would prevent
their admission to the United
IN States.
One hundred home-seekcrs were
out of 600 who attempted
to leave Bremen on one steamer
recently. All these unfortunates
were not defective but the rejection
of one member of family in many
cases prevented the entire group
from sailing for America.
There occur cases of the break
ing up of family groups when some
children old enough to travel alone
are allowed to proceed to America,
while others are detained. Weep
ing 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
bundle-1aden emigrants stood by in
terror lest some technically might
also keep them off the steamer
train for Bremerhaven.
One Polish woman, the widow of
an army surgeon and her 16year-
old son had been rejected at Dan
zig when the steamer had touched
there because the boy had conjunc-
tivitis The woman came with her
son by train to Bremen and plead
ed for another examination here,
but the physicians adhered to their
original diagnosis and the woman
was compelled to remain with her
son. In several cases one child inI
a family OF five or six showed
traces OF trachoma or conjunctiv-
tits. This was sufficient to halt
the whole family or to break upt
the family group. Some of the
members of which might 60 tot
America while others could not.
Typhus, traachoma and favus.
an affection of the scalp, are thel
three diseases for which ships
physicians seek above all others inl
examining emigrants from Poland
and other war areas destined forI
the United states. The United StatesI
emigration officials are slow to ad-
NIT persons whose eyes are not
normal and force the steamship
line to carry them back to theirl
port of embarkation. Besides, al
fine of 5000 may be imposed uponI
the steamship companies for carry
ing such persons to American ports.
Agents Are yigllant.
Consequently, agents of thel
steamship lines take few chances
in these days when there are hum
dreds Of emigrants elamoring for
every steerage passage available
from Danzig, Bremen and Ham
burg to the United States.
Checho- slovakia, Jugoslavia and
Poland are pouring streams of
prospective emig1ants into these
three ports and the steamer linesl
are forced to exert every effort toE
check them from congregating at
Hamburg and Bremen in larger
numbers than can be accommo- |
dated. Model, sanitary quarters are
available in these two ports for
emigrants, but the conditions are
far less satisfactory in Danzig, !
where many complaints are made !
concerning the emigrant quarters
and charges are made that they are
not free frorA verihin.
=. Unsanitary Accommodations.
The refugees who flock into
Danzig are generally in a wretched |
state when they arrive from the
devastated parts of Poland and the
Baltic states. Their accommOda- !
lions there are old and unsanitary. |
Political cross currents and divided |
authority keep shipping in a con-
slant state of uncertainty, with the
result that emigrants cannot get
proper attention.
Steerage passage from German /
ports to America this winter have
been exactly three times the rate
charged before the war, or the
equivalent of $40, while second
class passage has cost 1920.
In spite of the increased expense
OF transatlantic travel, every
steamer leaving for America has
every berth taken and reservations
are booked for months in advance.