COMING WINTER IN PARIS

Evening Star, Issue 16514, 28 August 1917, Page 4

COMING WINTER IN PARIS

The coming winter, as they themselves are aware, is going to strain the fortitude of the Parisians to a degree unetjuaiicd since the "terrible year" of the t-iegc. The most alarming shortage will probably be coal, as it was last winter. The magnificent courage of ihe Parisians has kept them fiom voicing their sufferings in nv. obstreperous manner. Th-ero have been no riots of any importance, the- demonstrations being confined to small individual affrays. I know of one case (says a. correspondent) in which four '• poilus," returning on leave to \'ii?.ir Paris homes and finding their wives and children without means to keep them warm, marched in a body to tha central yards, and, with drawn revolvers, demanded coal. The terrjfied clerks promptly gave t.hem all they could carry away, and only a show of resistance was 'made by the police protecting the yards. Coal in Paris, by the way, is always guarded by policemen. "Sugar, butter, milk, meat, and, most of a".l, bread and every variety of baked flour are chief scarcities besides coal in Paris.