NEW ORIENT EXPRESS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 5

NEW ORIENT EXPRESS

BUT NOT THE "BALKAN ZUG."

Every day, in Europe, some achievement is registered which seems to indicate, not only another step toward the re-establishment of peace conditions, but toward that great expansion in international intercourse which is to-day everywhere Cooked for (says tho "Christian Science Monitor"). Not tho least important of these steps was the quiet inauguration, tho other day, of a new orient express from Paris ami Bordeaux to Bucharest, travelling by way of the Simpion Tunnel, Milan, A'enice, Trieste, and so on. through Jugo-Slavia, to the Rumanian capital. Milan is the meeting place for tiie two great brandies, from Bordeaux and Paris respectively, whilst from Paris tho linu connects back, of course, to Callais and so to London. Thus, in kv%s lluin eight months from the signing of the armistice, a great highway e.srosa Europe is thrown open to traffic through countries which, for nearly fivo vears previous to tho armistice, had been locked, bo'tcd, and 'barred against each other, except in so far as admittance could ho gained by forco of amis. Today it is possiblo to leave Paris on a Monday ovening, for example, and arrive in Bucharest on Thursday afternoon, or In in Belgr<ulo on Wednesday, travelling all the way in a train de luxe, amidst conditions which aro every day improving.