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Show 0 Lack of Tourists Q Arouses the Irish 9 6 Dublin. At the Rotary club c X in Dublin complaint wus made S 5 that the tourist truffle, partlcu- 1 larly from America, had not S 0 reuched expectations this year, g ft One member who had returned j X from America said be was hu- 2 ' S tnlliuted there by the questions X asked regarding Ireland, by the 9 p doubts expressed as to whether Q rt the country was safe for travel- ers, and by the Impression that f 2 Ireland was in a backward state S i p of civilization, "with pigs In the y drawing room." o ' P. J. O'Brien, secretary of the a J Irish Tourist Development asso- j 9 elation, answering these state- 5 j p inents, said that, while there Q X had not been anything In the J nature of an American Invasion, 1 S the arrivals at Cobii totaled 5j P more than 1.000 a week, and the p traffic between Ireland and Eng- ?! 2 land on one of the most Import- S $ ant services was , practically 3 Jp double what It was last year. Sj p The transportation companies C g concerned were satisfied with r both results and prospects. j 9 In Ulster, the tourist traffic S p is reported In excess of previous s p years and in several districts 2 J has reached the pre-war stand- a 2 ard. j 1 0CH00000H0405j |