Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1920 — TO RETURN FRENCH HOTELS [ARTICLE]

TO RETURN FRENCH HOTELS

Government Soon Will Give Back to Owners Hostetries Used for - War Purposes. Paris. —Hotels requisitioned for government offices are to be returned to their owners as soon as possible, according to advices received by the French cabinet. It is believed they will be ready to accommodate the flood of American visitors expected next summer. There are 600 large hotels and 2,500 smaller hostelries in Paris. Of the latter 1,000 are suited for the tourist trade. Hotel men believe they can handle the tide of excursionists this

year and Intend to open a central bureau where strangers may be directed to satisfactory quarters. Foreigners are barred from the hotel and restaurant business by a bill introduced In parliament by the government. The war revealed that many foreign hotel and restaurant owners were enemy agents. The bill* forbids participation by aliens in the customs transit or commission agency trade. Information bureaus, employment agencies, munition factories, chemical works affecting national defense and the quarrying Industry.