Show COSTS BLOCK TRAVEL extortions Extort ions practiced at the frontiers frontier s of countries in central europe price of passport Past port aisea has seen been great greatly increased especially for americans the cost of travel tr ivil fur for americans lo in central europe and balkan countries Is reaching extortionate proportions through flit tendency to charge americans the same price for passport vises aises ns as that 0 of the lie american government for foreigners lenera which recently was increased front froni 1 to 10 if tills this tendency Is continued tin nn american in the course of 1 few jays days journey passing several frontiers may have to pay 30 to 30 lu 10 vises aises lor travelers velera of all Iro wever er tile charge hos bits been rapidly increasing during the last six months the germans began tile llo high charges ius demanding 5 then iben austria followed suit with the same charge e and hungary end and other countries count lea have been obliged to make like char ch arges because koi use 0 of I 1 the huge revenue so at tali table passports 0 rill are werely severely examined more so ahli alinn n in war ar time udder pretext pretest of obstructing bolshevik travel guards nt at frontiers ruthlessly turn back travelers without ll 11 roper ilses because of this unneighborly flee it Is 19 difficult for citizens of a foreign country to pas pit liol neward budapest Is now full of alious ands of people who duio under tinder tile hie new 3 fled fixed by the bence aiace bonfe rence anre subhi subjects acts of 0 or nr jugo linvin lut but cannot get passport pl port aises vises vl cs leollie to their property in one instance america A r i cans us used their good offices tone to g pet ln vises aises for two willows widows formerly but whose farms tire now in serbia they aliey had find wafred wafted eight months to get permission to t travel ra rell irio 10 milts the office of 0 american hekli filah corni aloner 1 grant smith at ij I 1 finlly dailly besieged by hundreds of who vilio wish it to go to or to ia 10 cure belp to rench reach their hornes homes ir IC czecho or other |