FEVERISH ACTIVITY
PARIS BEING EVACUATED
TRANSFER OF GOVERNMENT
LONDON, September 27,
The Paris correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says that French Government Departments are feverishly busy evacuating Paris. It is estimated tliat half a million persons have already left on their own initiative.
Preparations have also been made for transferring the Government to south-western France. No more than 800,000 or 900,000 persons are expected to remain in Paris itself.
Banks and businesses have made full arrangements to transfer their head offices to towns in the south-west, and the more valuable paintings in the Louvre are being removed to bombproof shelters. M. Herriot, Mayor of Lyons, has appealed to everyone to leave the city for the country.
During the night and morning further men were called up according to their individual qualifications.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 13
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