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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16417, 10 January 1919, Page 5

No sooner have we settled down, says an Australian writer (though lots of us find it still impossible to do so) x to the idea of peace, than the pleasure-as-usuals begin to plan abouti running over-seas,-and here and there, and. with stupefying callousness, talk gaily or "doing the battlefields," as though this terrible war was* just a rehearsal for a military picture film, and they are off to see the finished performance! But 1 it willlbe many a day before the troops or the Allies are all off French soil, and| many a clay after that before the French authorities will allow tljeir country to be overrun by gazing tourists. A warning lias been issued to globe trdtters that they may book for the oversea trip, but there is no promise that they can get back within a specified-time. Anyone can take the voyage over (who after the full and plenty of our war fare can put up with the rationing that must still go on in England for some time), ■but it might be two or even three years before they can get back.