As intimated above, whether Paris will be attacked or not depends upon the result of the operations now in progress to the eastward. The authorities are leaving! nothing to chance, and are proceed ing on the assumption that the e emy will contrive to cut off our railway communications with the rest of the country. They are taking a house-to-house census so as to find out how many people are likely to need rations, and they intimate that the gas supply may have to be reserved for lighting and not used for cooking or heating.
The life and animation of which Paris is usually full are dwindling away very markedly, if indeed they may not be stid to have gone al-er, At least five out of every shops are shut and the upper floors of the houses present melancholy rows of closed shutters. All business except that connected with the production distribution of necessaries, still. A friend of mine tells me that his turnover in July was eighty thousand franes and, four fr means uncommon.
Vast numbers of deserving people! are out of employment, and the distress must be very great, but Pari hides her sufferings well' and puts ona bold front.
Army and Nation One, mains de cir minds to win at any cost. The cheerfulness with which they submit to military rule is wonderful, One hears none of the criticism constantly levelled at the authorities in time of peace. The army and the people are unmistakably one. General iallieni, the Military Governor, is no respecter of persons, as be showed by suppressing M, Clemencean's paper "Homme Libre." Ne civil ian official would have dared to treat "Lo Tigre" in this way.
Even M. Clemenceau, the Warwiel the French Parliament, has to learn that talk must sometimes give way Physicians recommend them.
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