De—Maurice W. Kezminski, Director-General of Passenger ffic of the French Line in the United States and Canada, said yesterday that passengers leaving York on the fast liner France could be resting in the shade of the palms in sunny Algeria within, 10 days.- They would traved via Havre, Paris and Marseilles. They can purchase through tickets, he said, and have their heavy—baggage checked through to Algiers.
Since the French occupation of Morocco, Mr. Kozeminski said, fine automobile roads have been constructed through that fertile country, and tourists can go to Fez with luxury and ense instead of riding on the back of a camel and living on the native diet of huss-huss and dried grasshoppers, as in former days. The route takes in some of the finest sea and mountain scenery in the world.
A sight-seeing motor car drive of 1,000 miles from Algiers has been arranged. It is partly along the North African coast and in the interior to_ the old Moorish cities of Taza, Fez, Meknes, Tiflet, Rabat and Cassablanea.' At the latter place the tourists board a steamship which conveys them across the Bay of Biscay to Bordeaux. The trip also takes in Marakech at. the foot of the snow-clad Atlas Mountains and Tlemcen, where there is a mosque which is said to have the finest specimen of alabaster carving in the world.'
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Under the old regime of the Sultans, travelers who went to Fez, the capital, had to live in a house in the Jewish quarter during their stay in the city and were jeered by the natives. Now they are quartered in the palace which formerly belonged to the Grand Vizier and enjoy their meals served in coo) gardens shaded by palms beside rippling fountains.
Before 1914 Algeria was a popular winter resort with Americans who went from New York on the White Star liners, which called at Algiers after leaving Gibraltar and before going to Naples and Genoa. This line, it is understood, will resume this service when the Arabic is pub on the Mediterranean route from.
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