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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15447, 9 September 1914, Page 3

MOURNING-r-AND HOPE. !

I Or. 23rd January negotiations for an ainiislice began, and at midnight 011 the j —lith the camion lire on both sides ceased. By this time, after a siege of It!!! days, the cupboard of Paris \«as iliiiiKi- bare; horse bones, with scant moat attached., were the staple of the starvation dier. For some wioks the Government had distributed rations of horse ilesh and very coarse broad, to a total weight of 31X) grammes (not quite i "100/ Alo acli person daily, and this 'j allowance gradually dwindled to 30 ' j grammes (about lozl. The capitulation ■ was concluded on 2Sth J-.inunrv. and Palis agreed to pav 'iOO.OOO.OOf") francs (about £B,<X)O 000) within a fortnight—j a foretaste of the painful indemnity j medicine. | ; The terms on which the authorities'' ■ agieod to surrender exasperated large 1 sec ions of the Parisian populace. Here, ;■ K Li.ssagaray's -scornful note:- j "On 28th January the Gorman flag I wai hoisted on our forts. All had been |- signed the evening before. Some -KX).IX>O ', men. armed with muskets and cannons, ■ capitulated to L'I'IO OfK!. . . Xot con- ' lent with surrendering Paris, the Go-j voriiment of tho National Defence- sur- . : ifi-dorcd all Frame. The armistice ap-J 1-lied to all the armies of the provinces' 1 save Boiirbaki's. the only one that) would have inotited by it." I "The revolutionists "of Paris, without; organisation, in face of 240-tXX> soldiers: and mobiles who were gained over to! peace, dolaved the capitulation for, months and avenged it with their i blond." j "On 2oth Januarv. soldiers and civi-! bans placed lame black crowns on the Stamp of L : be:ty. the monument of the ereat Revolution. Woiikmi. dressed in black, suspontled a tricolour flag, in-serib-d. 'The Repubb'can women to the martyrs.' When the nodes!a] was I covered, the i-rowns and flow eis were j j wound around the Run re. encircling i.'., iiom foot to head with veilow and black! . flow vs. red and tricolour orifininnies. | I ->yinlj-i!s of iiiotniiiii'r for ihe past and hope in the future.' "

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