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Show Mi TWO , Old World Plagues and War generated Maladies May Be Carried Along PARIS, Dec. 20 The tide of Euro-! pean emigration will he turned to South America In the event of the' United States erecting barriers . .-.iinst immigr.'.iion. is the opinion or In. Unpen Hlui , assistant surgeon general of the L'nitcd Slates public health service, whose staff of American Ameri-can doctors is supervising at every European port, the medical examination, examina-tion, vaccination and delousing of all emigrants bound for the United States. EASIER TO GO SOUTH. "The most striking danger of increased in-creased emigration southward." said Dr. Blue today, "is the likelihood or I old world plagues and war-generated maladies being tarried along." Dr. Blue added that the rigors or the examinations by the American doctors influenced sickly emigrants to i take the easier route to South Amer ICO. The American examination, be said, consisted of a course of scrub-j hlng, steaming, shaving and clipping in the delousing plants and afterwards after-wards the fumigation of all efrects. CHRISTMAS RUSH HERE. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Tho Christmas Christ-mas rush ot emigrants and other passengers pas-sengers anxious in tp?nd the holidays on American soil reached its height Sunday when right trans-Atlantic liners lin-ers arrived frith more than 12,000 pas scngers. Four or the steamers arrived ally enough to unload their 7000 passengers, pas-sengers, while the others will proceed to their dock-- tomorrow morning. The fou:- early arrivals were the Car-mania Car-mania and Baltic Trom Liverpool and Queenstown, respectively; Leopoldlna, Havre, and He d'ltalia, Genoa and Naples. Na-ples. The Cm-mania and Baltic each had 2000 passengers. The others were the Imperator. horn Southampton and Cherbourg with 2000; fhettningholm,. Gothenburg; Madonna, Naples and Marseilles and La Savole, Havre, each with 1000. MORE SHIPS DUE. Among the passenger liners due be fore Christmas are the Olympic from Southampton and Cherbourg; Susquehanna, Susque-hanna, Danzig- Bergenefjord, Ber-gonn; Ber-gonn; Heilig ui;i Cbrlatlonla; Dues DAosta, Genoa and Naples, and N'letiw Amsterdam; Rotterdam. oo |