WHEN THE WAR ENDS
AMERICAN TRIPPERS TO EUROPE. PASSAGES ALREADY BOOKED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Sept. 19, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 18. Twenty million .pounds will be returned to Europe within a year after peace by travelling Americans, according _to the estimates of steamship companies, which are alread booking the passages of a. hundred thousand Americans. It is estimated that of voyagers who will rush across the Atlantic to see the battlefields when the war is ended, the average expenditures in Europe will be £2OO per person. The North German Lloyd 'Company announces that it has booked 107 passengers for the first vessel departing after the war. The Hamburg-American line has also booked l some, and. the Cunard and the Anchor Lines say they are prepared for heavy traffic as soon as peace is declared. They are keeping vessels in shape for immediate emergency demands. The Cunard officials say that they have received enquiries for first class passages after the close of the war from many foreigners who arrived in America steerage, and having made much money lately, want to return, in the best style.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 5
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