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Evening Star, Issue 18399, 6 October 1923, Page 13

Recent, visitors to Paris whoso sightseeing lias'taken them outside the familiar inner circle of familiar streets have caught some glimpse of the great work of demolition and reconstruction now in full swing in the area of the old inner fortifications. It is the demolition stage on which operations are, now proceeding. One by one the great bastions to which before, the war of 1870 Paris trusted for safety against tlie invader arc being demolished, and the belt of once formidable forts is being turned into a great wilderness of debris. From this an airier and more sanitary Paris is to arise. Before the war it had been decided that the obsolete defences must go, and for 1,000,000 francs the State sold the land to the municipality. But then came the war, and it is only now that the big task is getting well in hand. And it is estimated that the work of razing the old forts will not be finished for at least another five years. One of the needs of the hour is a pocket airplane that will enable the pedestrian to fiy across the street. —Boston ‘ Trans-