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Show V, NOROOM ABROAD ! FOR SIGHTSFEBS Admonition to 2.000,000 o, So of Americans Who Contemplate Con-template Touring the Bat-tclfield Bat-tclfield Next Year. cVEN NOW LONDON CAN'T HOUSE VISITORS Thofe Who Think of Going I Advied to Be Sure of Quar- ten Before Starting. jl lfnricans who contempt vsiting fl w h.ft'lpfK'ld m Europe next pnn.- I .nrnmrr will be well advised to i ctwwu accommodflt on wrl a '"'r :!c. 01 to postpon. then lour .7 ' 5J i until .on.imons are mor. favor ! i Percy S BtilUn. treat.irer or Z lai on o( For. Ign Preei Rep !l,ntativcs In the I'nitrl Mates, who STlSt turned to New STork, say. .it London even now cannot find 2 ,nr rotors, and ihnt the atnU SSftl?, ,hrn the Hoodgates ,f tour J' r M.".n nre again op,:, , i, b. I ; ',.1 (hat Homo '- 10 Ji for eaeh man m I Emm to L"n,td s " "'" ''",rl"K I if, mi -" ruaklnp plan i fir j rans- I uiantii tip -n the nevt two yean ! Thfir chief object is to see me In- I ,rlr pot? where tbi Anierii n sol I 1' fouht-the Argonn- orc.V.l I TM"r'. S. Mih:-. and to, ,.,,,, .u.h a perm,! .. . . -H 10 Eng- . - mi and funds will oeimit. ! J Mr n.il! n has been all over tn 1 I wf'iteni from during the laat few I week anl h predicts nothing out an-j " ; ,rn;a'lon and despair a- he lot I of'in usliors who trust to luck to I i I sscure hotel accommodation?. Organ nation? of hotel keep rj havi been I fonn'd to M.p.- with Hi- invasion bt I kev arc powerless becati th-re I bff'n no building during 'b war and I bulMinp on a big s ale in Londi n and I pari? - M '' ll"',s "' ' "P'd bj , : He war departments durin, Ihc w.tr fl f shortly be released, bu' Ui.v will I nsuffietem to rope rith a I crast emergency such nov. ecu?) 18 M V, Ihr. .'ill IH (i No Steps Yet Taken SI The difficulty of the situation will u r-.ti:e,i wiien M i- t no m'jered J t the usual flow oi tourists lo Bt i f op has been rompletelj iliapended f ! dunnr the war and that only thOM a among i h f,a 1 1 hiesl will lid ( I lie (inn chane e ., urlnu li ' rn 11 modatlon when the bars against tour jt travel .-hall have been removed. 1 So far no Pteps whatsoever h.v.e been taken abroad to meet an unusual ' I isfhix of visitors. Mr. Bullen was io i impres (I " iih ih diffl- JliJ thn at a eoed In London that he prepared a I I Memorandum on Ihe aubj rt, v iirh he i fibml'tid at recn' ni"in: f tin- Roya Colonial Institute in London. In j W 'he discussion which -nsued It was A ' proposed that steps b tken ' r the formation -n London of a ntlonal I committee of reception. s a nucleus I I of the organization it was proposed a t hat represi ntatives of the vjri vj I g)oAmerican societies should meet, I xrith power to ndd to their number va-I va-I I rllous representatives whose expet I I MCe would be useful in solving the J problem now presented Sur!i pi r I ions would Include members of the American Chamber oi Comuierci 'fl I LDdon and other American?, besides I Indlnc Britishers. Plan Suggested J Tbe firi e-.-. utial step is to mo-' f blizi and list all available accomina a dation provided b hotels iir.d board- i log houses, and th n i niii rhe assist fl loce of every householder volilni.' to W place a room at the disposal of 'he I committee of reception If 'li s plan 1 icaturs Ix)ndon will keep in tone'i i I I ith Ni r, York on th- nueHtion af c : I commodaiions, and peopl m jiut-i jiut-i ed Staler, v. ill advised as o the a bait time to travel and the cbaio - Ol t wjrlnj: accommodat ion al reasonable I f rite a i the time Mr Bulien left I I Llrerpool nothing actually h ! h n f ; 'ione t-jcepi lo call attea h a ! problem and the dissiatiafactlOfl rblcb 111 enusue if nirrK m "ltorp t.. 1 I Kntlatid and P rani e next yeai find IJ i fltittselves absoluteh nh d. 'brfdifni-il . Bnlsium is apparently well L.le o I tike care of visitor- to the Hclgian I UtLlefields. mainl Deduse pi fl I liimude and the much nattered const i a '"Til are all within eas ran? S Of Oa :w I td. Bruges and Ghent l 'I all the fl: t battlefield- visited Mr Bullen de-m de-m i ' arc s pr-- Is the "most til f bat, with Its memories of homi.- Hght ( l extending from Ypres down the; I rDnen and Poelcappellc roads, "Is Wiutlful in its ruin"." Oofnd Is j U a Probably the best center for autonio-l T I Ju Par'lrs, and the burgroiuaater of I ('"rnd r,nr of i In- fiw i,. n p:.p.r 12 to deal with an urn vatnpled de-B de-B aind for hotel accommodations a m nn |