The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
GERMAN WATERS ARE NOW SEEKING JObS IN ENGLAND
Great Britain Has Lifted Its Ban Against Arrivals
 From Germany

BERLIN, May 12-After the be- ginning of the new year I shall not be serving you any longer, l am going back to try and get my old position in Englnd."
 A servile German waiter in one of Berlin,s better-class restaurants was overheard making the above remark in English to an American diner Asked why he had delayed so long after the war in seeking re-employ- ment abroad, the waiter explained that only on December 23, had the English government lifted it's post war ban on German arrivals.
 For this man, and doubtless hun dreds of others in his calling here, that date had stood out long as a red-letter day on his calendar
 It is estimated that there are abroad now only one-sixth of the German and Austrian cooks and walters who were in foreign employ before the war. When hostilities broke out many dropped their knives and forks in other lands to come home and pick up a rifle; oth CTS were deported or interned; some were caught while visiting in Ger many and, willingly or otherwise, became a part of the military forces.
 Many Walters in England
 In 1914 there were some 5000 Ger man and Austrian cooks In foreign countries, and 1o,000 walters. Today there are from 500 to 1000 cooks and about three times that many wait CTS. The latter figures do not in clude large number of Germans who remained in the United States throughout the war.
 Chicago is cited here as having hitherto been the most popular sin gle point of attraction in the outside world. In that city alone. before the war, the German and Austrian cooks numbered 300 and the walters no less than 1000.
 European countries also drew many of these employees aVay from their native tables, and it is a source of surprise to many tourists here that frequently the man who serves them can speak as many as six languages. London abounded in German walters, and naturally the recent relaxation in the English re- strictions finds wide favor among many here who are chafing at con finement within the vicious circle of low wages and high costs of liv- ing. with mGrk that Is constantly depreciating in value.
 Were Promised Land
 Next to England and America, Switzerland and Holland were the pre-war promised lands" of these frock coated, disciplined pilgrims. However. when Germany obliged numerous Swiss walters here to leave the co nt. y at the outbreak of the war, the Swiss authorities took similar action against German wait CTS in Switzerland. Further. the Swiss employers came to the conclu- sion that the Germans had underbid Swiss walters so greatly that their competition was injurious to the country's native populace.
 Two years ago arrangements were made for an international exchange, but the German interests concerned worked to impede walters exodus from the Fatherland. One of these Instructions was a demand that for every German waiter going to Hol- land, six Dutch walters were to be sent here.
 Some of these workers abroad have been drifting to Italy and Spain, but the former country has shown strong resistance to their re- entry. Opposition to them also has been found in the Scandinavian countries and in the Briti'h overseas possessions. In one of the former German colonies the admission re- quirements have been frightened eveN recently.
 Holland has been proving more and more of a magnet for German housemaids, as well. According tc an unofficial estimate recently an nounsed here, there are at least 100,- coo of these "frauleins" now or Dutch soil, with 10000 in Amsterdam alone. The number is so great, 1; is said, that many are finding diff culty in obtaining employment.