PARIS PREPARING

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22968, 11 August 1944, Page 5

PARIS PREPARING

Triumphal March Of Allies

(9.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. Aug. 10. A group of enterprising Paris black marketeers has already sold all the available window seats at corners along the expected route of the Allies’ triumphal march through the city, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “New York Times.” The windows around Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe fetched as high as 10,000 francs. A traveller arriving from Paris said that everything was arranged for (lie Allied entry, flags and bunting being prepared almost, openly. “I travelled on virtually the last German train from Paris, because civilian trains have not onb- ceased all pretence of adhering to timetables, but the Nazis have forbidden anybody to leave Paris without permission The - lea is to prevent men of military age skipping out to join the Partisans which, however, they are doing in Increasing numbers under cover of darkness. The atmosphere In Paris is improving ns the Allies draw nearer. There Is no 1 ---'ei fear of bombing. Past raids have severely damaged suburban factories, but. ’.lie eitv uroper almost intact. Ninetv-eight. p»» rent of Frenchmen loathe Vichy even more than Hie Germans.”