UNREST IN PARIS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 5

UNREST IN PARIS

BANDS OF COMMUNISTS Impressions Of Europe Press Associa'ion —Copyright. Auckland, June 1. The only signs of popular discontent or unrest seen on the Continent by Mr H. N. Baylis, a prom.inent Detroit business man who arrived at Auckland by the Mariposa from Sydney on a holid’ay tour embracing England, France, Egypt, India and. Australia, were in Paris before last year’s elections. In Great Britain, although rearmament was engaging the attention of the Government, there seemed, he said, as it was before 'the Great War, to be no thought or fear of an international disturbance. In Paris; however, it was almost impossible to sleep at night because of the noise made by 'the bands of Communists who roved the streets to give vent to their political opinions. “Their screeching and yelling went on at all hours,” he said, and he was glad to leave the city. Mr Baylis is an Australian who has lived in the United States’ since 1920 He is a descendant of a very old Australian pioneering family, his greatgrandfather, Captain Thomas Baylis, of the 17th English Regiment, having gons out 'to the infant colony in 1831, after having been captain of the Guards at Edinburgh Castle, where Mr Baylis’s grandilather, Henry Baylis, afterward police magistrate at Wagga Wagga, was born. On his mother’s side Mr Bayliss is descended from an American family.

When he was 18 years of lage Mr Baylis interrupted hs studies to be. come a doctor and enlisted with the 10th Army Service Corps, the survivors of which met him at Sydney recently and presented him with a suit-case prominently decorated with a kangaroo and tne names of the other members of the corps. In America after the war Mr Baylis.' took bis degree of bachelor of laws and .then went into the Tear estate and transport business.