BELGIUM: Frantic Victualers

Stealthy Belgians posted up in major European cities last week this amazing poster, three feet high and adorned with the Belgian tricolor:

Tourists—Don't visit Belgium, the land of prohibition and innumerable vexations, with taxes on hotel rooms, visitors' tax and other bothersome regulations.

Tourists—Four months' prison for having a bottle of spirits on you!

In Brussels the indomitable tradesmen of the Belgian Licensed Victualers' Association calmly announced that they had had 100,000 posters printed and secretly distributed throughout Europe....

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