Paris, Sept. 8.
Long before this letter reaches you, the result of the great battle now in its preliminary stages near Paris will have been made known by cable, but it may be of some interest to record how it feels to be ina great city threatened with attack by 8 mighty army.
The approach of danger has had one good effect; all the timid people who did @ great deal of harm by spreading alarmist rumours have cleared out, and the city is inhabited only by those who cannot leave or do not choose to leave. No doubt the exodus was hastened by the three visits from German aeroplanes and their bombo. In reality they did Paris @ service rather than harm. They killed five or six people—the Newspapers are not allowed to say exactly how many—but they relieve ed us of thousands of people whose room would be better than their company during siege and they gave the world one more illustrabes of German methods of warfare.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.