Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-07
LONDON HAS BECOME CITY OF REFUGE FOR
 FUGITIVES OF WAR
Relief Committees Have Been Called Upon To Help National itieS Who Are Escaping To England From Conflict

LONDON. Oct 6.-American tour ists for the last month have continued to arrive in large numbers from the Continent by every boat and train. Some have come here completely stranded Others, have been able 10 travel frst-class and get through from various parts of the Continent with out other inconvenience than delay due to movements of troop trains.
 Most of the regular routes-Dieppe, Flushing, Calais. Ostend, Havre and Boulogne are open but owing to mines strewn by German vessels, Channel boats have only been allowed to cross by day.
 The Flushing boat trains have brought hundreds of German Ameri- cans. some of whom can hardly speak a word of English. Their passports have been closely examined at the ports of entry and all incoming trav- elers have had to submit to a strict medical examination.
 London. in fact. has become the one great City of Refuge for Europe and Americans and refugees of all types, whose origins are to be found in all the nations of the Continent, are flying from the devastations and trials of the war.
 How varied are the types of these American citizens can only be real. ized by those constantly meeting boat trains. The Relief Committee Work CTS have had to help German, Aus trian, Belgian, French, Polish, Rou. manian and Russian Americans and North American Indians, pictur- esque party in full war costume. whose trials and privations after tour ing in Austria with a German circus. have been related in previous des patches.
 Only two days ago a Galician who has been an American citizen for over 20 years, arrived with his wife and her child. He had gone to Galicia to marry her and the woman and child arrived clad in their artistic national costume. top boots and all, The meas ures taken by the Relief Committee to deal with those without money have been admirable All those stranded have been put in taxi-cabs and sent to hotels for the night. The next day they have been taken over by the Re lief Committee Workers at the Savoy Hotel and sent off, almost within the day, to America. The Committee has taken in hand many cases of lost trunks for poor travellers who were obliged to go to America by the first ! boat an dtrust to luck to their trunks | being found and forwarded In one ! instance the Committee, after search Ing for three days, for a woman's ] package" found that 1t was a bed stead she had left in Antwerp
 Some pathetic hard luck cases have come to light One poor woman who | reached London with her little boy and wished to get to Liverpool where her husband had booked her passage ! broke down completely with gratitude when a member of the Committee took her in charge. found her luggage and sent her off to Euston in a taxi-cab A party of variety artists who had had a hard time in Brussels were delight ed at finding willing and prompt aid for them here. A rich woman, wht had lost her maid abroad had had no change of clothing for three weeks and could get no money from tho banks. found personal friends immedi
 ately she arrived in London and wal
 rescued from a most embarrassing position. Two we'll known women each with two children, had not ever
 ono penny between them on gettinl ! to Charing Cross.