CABLE BREVITIES AMERICAN TOURIST RUSH TO EUROPE

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1947, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES AMERICAN TOURIST RUSH TO EUROPE

The U.S. State Department, has relaxed its restrictions on European pleasure travel, thus opening the way for the first big post-war exodus ol American overseas tourists. State Department experts said that between 60,000 and 70,000 Americans arc expected to take advantage of the new regulations, which will make it easier for tourists to obtain passports to Britain, to Ireland and to sections ol western Europe. Passport applications from prospective tourists are now being accepted on condition that the applicants can show that their return transportation is guaranteed, and that hotel or other accommodation is reserved to provide their food and lodging requirements.—Washington, Feb. 10. Record Wool Price. A New South Wales record for greasy Merino fleece was? established at the Sydney wool sales, when 85id per lb was paid for JO hales branded “Otterbourne Vass.’’ The previousrecord was 85d, paid at the December sales. The market was firm at last week’s opening rates, and the clearance was 11,662 bales.—Sydney, February 11. Four Nuns Imprisoned Four Roman Catholic nuns who allegedly forced school children to spy on one another were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a court at Ljubljana on charges of influencing children “in favour of Quisling organisations and against the liberation movement.” Two’ nuns were acquitted.—Belgrade, E ebruary 10. Vanguard Crosses Line “Two ‘barbers’ powdered the Princesses’ faces with giant puffs, giving them the freedom of the seas, when King Neptune held court aboard the Vanguard soon after the ship crossed the Equator,” says Reuter’s correspondent. “Then two ‘doctors’ administered ‘pills,’ W’hich the Princesses, suspecting they were made of soap, accepted charily. They smiled as they realised that. the ‘pills’ were glace cherries.”, —London, Feb. 10.