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Show Rail Journey From pans to Constantinople Marked By Official Red Tape CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept 5 (Correspondence.) (Cor-respondence.) Nine vlsacs are required re-quired lo carry a traveler from Constantinople Con-stantinople to Paris on the Oriental express, and I ho task is so great thai most traveler.-, lake steamers to Marsi Ulea or Venice In preiereuce to Ihe jumbled rail trip across the Balkans, Bal-kans, which necessitate a r-ndlers controversies con-troversies Willi border control of-tlcials of-tlcials at various fronileir. An American who (Io3lreo lo go lo I Paris by -ail muci start with vhe visa of the I'nited Stales consulate on Ins passport, Then the tourist must go to the Swedish legation to get the Bulgarian visa The Serbian stamp is next In order. It must be followed by Ihrec Gri k stamps. ,hal ol the Greek high conimitsiocor, of the Greek military control and of ihe Greek consul. Then vlsaes must be had of the Italian and the French military controls Mjny paraports are not large enough lo cany ;-ll the stumps. An Englishman, who recently attempted to gel the collection on an old pass port, exhausted nil the blank space 'n four calif.. His embassy would not permit him to attach 0 blank sheet to his passport Consequently he had to hae a new one issued ind started over train on the round oi vexatious quc::cs. Since the Polish disaster, Bolshevik Bolshe-vik agitation has become so acute in Turkey I hat travelers .n o watched more carefully than ever before by Ye allied officials. On a recent passenger pas-senger ship from Batr.m i so called Russian colonel, whose conversation with British officials showed a decided de-cided ignorance of military affairs, was ; in . ill d. Ho had five passports in his trunks, together with great quantities, of soviet literature in mao l;'.'iu io The bogus colonel was sent to General Wrangel iu the Crimea |