FRENCH DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 11 August 1914, Page 5

FRENCH DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS.

•/■— PARIS, Aug. 10. The first, military mobilisation is ov^er and more "trains are available for civi- j Hans. | The Government is setting about organising agriculture and industries to enable the national life to proceed with the least inconvenience. Abundance of offers have been made of female labor, which will be distributed throughout the communes according to the applications from employees. The Minister of Labor is increasing the transport of foodstuffs by requisitioning horses and vehicles notrequisitioned by the army. Schneider Creusot, the gunmaker, recently agreed to furnish twenty-six batteries ef 105 millimetre guns, but when the war broke out Schneider forfeited his contract deposit and presented the batteries to the French Government. Fifty German spies have been captured, and it is stated have been orderied to be shot. j The French garrison at Grand Popo in Dahomey acted in conjunction with a British cruiser in taking possession of Togoland