SIGHT-SEEING AFTER THE WAR
BIG RUSH OF AMERICAN TOURISTS EXPECTED. Australian-New Zealand Cabla Association. Now York, September 18. Twonty million pounds will bo returned to Europe within a year after peaoa is deolared by travelling Americans, according to estimates of steamship com-' panies, which aro already booking passages. A hundred thousand Americans is the estimated number of voyagers who will rush across the Atlantic to sco the battlefields when tho war is ended, and their average expenditure in Europe will bo £200 per porsoi. The North Gorman Lloyd Company announces that it has booked 107 passengers for tho first vessel departing after tho war. Tho Hamburg-Ameri-can Company has also booked soma and the Cunard and Anchor Lines say fchoy aro prepared for heavy traffic as soon as peace is declared. They are keeping' their vessels iu shape for immediate emergency demands. Tho Cunard officials state they hav« received inquiries for first-cla6s pas cages after tho close of tho war from many foreigners who arrived in America in the steerage, and have made much money lately, and want to return in tho best stylo. . ,
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2881, 20 September 1916, Page 5
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183SIGHT-SEEING AFTER THE WAR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2881, 20 September 1916, Page 5
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