Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-09 | Page 7 | France Expects Many Tourists

'FRIGE EXPECTS I INYJ01STS By a Staff Correspondent of the In. ternational News Service and the London Daily Express. PARIS, April 9. Tho greatest pilgrimage pil-grimage in history will be seen within with-in the next few months in France, is now beginning will do mpro to bring prosperity to tho country which suffered most in the war than any financial or commercial agreements can ever accomplish. The Mecca of tho pilgrims will bo tho historic battlefields, from the Somme to the Mouse, where torn and twisted landscape now mingles with stono and mortar and other evidence' of a reuascant France. I Flaming posters in the Paris tuor-ist tuor-ist agencies already announce trips to the battlefields by rail, motor or air. A number of Englishmen who did their bit during the Avar and have remained in France to go into the motor hire business, acquiring extra cars as tho demand Improves, are looking forward to doing a good business busi-ness when the Anglo-Saxon invasion begins in earnest. Every cafe keeper and resturateur along the great national routes leading lead-ing from Paris to tho battlefields is rubbing his hands and talking of the money he will make. He is estimating the cost of having his establishment renovated and repainted re-painted outside, 'and a greeting in English Intimating that ho sells "Bass," can offor you eggs and bacon or fiv'o'clok tea," and that his place boasts an "bar Americaln" will greet you on your way. The railway companies will run one-day one-day trips to the battlefields at reduced tickets for visitors making a more ex-"up ex-"up the line," visitors will find tho local population well prepared to cater for them in the way of feeding them, supplying guides, and offering accomodation accom-odation is certnin to be inadequate tho demand. The municia.pl authorities authori-ties are taking steps to protect tho Interests of visitors from tho rapacity of profiteers.