Immigrants who are not exempted under the quota system of the American Immigration restriction act will not, until further notice, be permitted to book passage to the United States, the North Atlantic Passenger Conference, which includes all the principal British and European steamship lines, has issued a circular to all its booking agents ordering them to discontinue the selling of steamship tickets for passages to the United States, where applicants are excluded under the provisions of the American Immigration Restriction Act.
The purpose of this circular is to alleviate the hardships caused to the immigrants by permitting them to make the fruitless trio to the United States only to be rejected at Ellis Island and to save the Steamship Company the expense of the return passages.
Bookings to Canada will in no wise be affected by this order.
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