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Show ALIENS FIGHT TO MHKEJLS. HOME Fifteen Million 'Europeans Clamor for Emigration to This Country NEW YORK. Dec. 1. Fifteen million mil-lion men, women and children of all social ami economic classifications, repi nlii.g i-vcry nationality iti Ru- rope are fhrhting for passage to the I'm;. (I States, according to reports submitted by seventeen trans-Ailnnllc in ihip ompan representatives to Predsrlck a. Wallls, commissioned of Immigration at Ellis Island. Every seaport city und town alonj; the western und southern coasts of Europe, Eu-rope, tht .aid, is crowded with persons per-sons who in their eagerness to leave for this country, have sold their homes ami everything (hey possessed ras?- port offices nhroad won- reported to be besieged with applicants. They also expressed the opinion that five million Germans and Aus-trians Aus-trians are ready to sail as soon as the United Stales makes peace with their ( 'ommta oner Wallls, who will leave for AVnhlnctnn today for a conference confer-ence with members of (be house and Benate immigration com missions said 'all records for Immigration have been bi Hkcn recently. "Eighty-seven per cent of imnu-, imnu-, grants enter the l ulled States through , K'llis Island," he said, ' and there ! are I'Ofm persons there mnlght who arc shamefully crowded. There Is no ; hm.. denying the fact that we have not enough room. And they are still com-, com-, ine. I "It would amaze one to know that i on cue particular day the Polish for-: for-: efgn office had .11 1,000 applications for passports. V are petilnp Splendid Splend-id mon unrl women from Holland, the Scandinavian countries and Czechoslovakia." Czecho-slovakia." More immigrants are arriving from Poland than from any other country; he said. Most nf those people are Jewish Jew-ish oo |