PARIS IN 1944
GLOOMIEST GITY IN WORLD
(Rec. 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 12. People in Paris .are starving, says Mr H. R. Knickerbocker, Normandy correspondent of 'P.M.' For three weeks Parisians have had nothing to eat but turnips. Mr Knickerbocker quotes M. Eugene Simon, assistant mayor of Cherbourg, as saying that Paris is now the gloomiest city in the world.
Asked why people in Normandy did not send parcels to their relatives in Paris, M. Simon replied: "Parcels would never reach them. Any food would be stolen either by the Germans or by hungry Frenchmen.'' M. Simon added that the Germans had so many francs they could not spend them.' This had led to a terrific rise in prices.
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Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 5
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120PARIS IN 1944 Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 5
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