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Show EMBASSY WILL TAKE OVER RELIEF WORK Committee in London Re sents Being Used as Emigration Em-igration Bureau . LCADO Sept 17 2 Oo p n Wal ter H nes Page the Amer can en bassa dor w 11 nove the off ces of the A ner can embabsy next week to i Gros venor bquare the bu lding formerly used bj the Japanese embassy The landlord ncreased the rent of the old offices at 123 Victor a street The new of 1 ces are nore commod ous. n a bet ter ne ghborhood and offered at a rea sonable rate The off ces be ng used at present by the American embassy 'Rill be ta en over temporar ly by the Amer can res dents Tel ef com u ttee and by the American money transfer comn as on nh ch organ zat ons w 11 comb ne the r work and surrender the r quarters at the bavoy hotel Herbert C Iloovcr cha rman of the Amer can res dents rel ef con m ttee and other prominent workeis n th a f eld and nany German American any An orican tour sts now in Germany, w 1! leave the country when the actual war news reaches them Tour sts com ng from Germany say hat v rtually all the news pr nted there s favorable to the German army and that visitors have no knowledge of the E ss an or the allies ' successes Many Amer cans also are staying n France who contemplated lea ng when the Germans were near Pans and who probably would rush to England if the all es were repulsed The rel ef worke s feel that n v ew of the warn ng that had been gi en to Americans on the continent the Amen can government should not be expected to mainta n a large rel ef body for tour ists who d sregard the advice Mr Breck nridge today sa d the- emer geney relief work should not be regarded as an emigrat on bureau ntended to take care or indigent natural zed Amer cans who had settled n Europe w th the jdea of living there forever but who now want ass stance back to Amer ca because the war interferred with the r plans The work of the London Amer can re 1 ef committee w 11 be gradually taken over by the attaches of the embassy Only about 100 refugees are coming n daily Dow Reports from Ostend and Flushing show tnat th s nutaber s not likely to ncrease V rtualky all the refugees arriving n London now are from c ther Austr a or Germanj |