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Show CENTRAL EUROPE IS .CUT OFF FROM v AMERICA B-BBVSS Immigration Is Suspended Pending Cleanup of Sanitary Situation TKIKST, rA. 1. Immigration from Central Europe to the United States haa been suspended and the eastern frontiers of Italy have been closed, pending the cleaning' up of the sanitary situation here. ' The most rigid repulitaons have been put J n to effect with regard to the movement of ail emigration not covered by the u pension order. The cHosof typhus here are under the strictest quarantine. No new case, were reported today. Italian authorities have forbidden railroad or sea pannage to emigrants frdm Poland, Crecho-Slovakia and , Jugo-Klavia a a result of the discovery dis-covery that travelers from those countries coun-tries were In some cases suffering from typhus fever. This regulation will continue for one month, during which time conditions among immigrants immi-grants awaiting steamers here will be ' thoroughly Investigated. After that no emigrants will be allowed al-lowed to embark until regulations prescribed by the United States government gov-ernment Tinvc teen carried ont. "" ' NKW YORK. Feb. 17. The rlgldty , of inspection of all Immigrants from : the typhus infected areas of Kurope wan demonstrated today when oQ immigrants im-migrants n from the steamship Finland Fin-land arrived here on a special train from Boston. iSixty-two men, twelve women and fifteen boy were held for dejousing at a local hospital. |