Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1919 — Public Asked to Abstain From Unnecessary Travel to European Countries [ARTICLE]

Public Asked to Abstain From Unnecessary Travel to European Countries

g as reiterated its request that the public abstain for the present from all unnecessary travel to European" Icountries. 1 countries. The department asserts that applications for passports to these ’countries were being received in such large and daily increasing numbers that it had been deemed necessary “to emphasize the fact that passports cannot be issued for Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Belgium or Italy unless positive documentary evidence is furnished by applicants which will satisfy the department of the urgent necessity for visits to those countries.” Business houses and in some cases relief organizations have applied for passports not in good faith, a statement by the department sai4- In some cases these passports have been Issued before the bad faith was discovered, but it was said that all firms found to have misstated the facts woultUbe blacklisted.