War Stops Immigration.
Before the war an average of 5,000 immigrants used to arrive daily at Ellis Island, New York. Now the average is only 150 a day, according to Commissioner Uhl.
The total number of immigrants into the United States last year was 1,197,892. Of these the number admitted from the Russian empire and Finland was 291,040; from Italy, 265,542; and from Austria and Hungary, 254,825.