Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — STRIKES CHECK ON TRAVEL [ARTICLE]

STRIKES CHECK ON TRAVEL

Levant Hotels Crowded as Steamers Fail to Run—New Ship Line Is Talked Of. Constantinople.—Travel in the Levant has become so difficult that hotels In nearly all the larger cities are crowded twith persons waiting for steamer and railroad accommodations. Strikes in Bulgaria. Serbia and Italy, together with the lack of through trains and Jhe impossibility of getting checked baggage through because of theft, have forced travelers to rely chiefly on steamers to French ports. The steamer lines have also been badly disorganized by lahor troubles and most ships are many days behind their schedules. Although the United States shipping board has many ships at Constantinople and the other large near-eastern ports it has no regular passenger sailings. and women are not permitted to travel on most shipping board boats unless they are In government servjce. Consequently Americans have great difficulty in getting through sailings to America. Maj. E. E. Booth, who was formerly with the shipping board in Paris, has been transferred to Constantinople as director of shipping board affairs in the near east and is andeavoring to get changes effected which will make travel easier to and from America.