LEAVING PARIS
PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS PREPARATIONS TO TRANSFER GOVERNMENT. MORE RESERVISTS CALLED UP. LONDON, September 27. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Paris correspondent says that French Government departments are feverishly busy evacuating Paris. It is estimated that half a million persons have already left on their own initiative. Preparations have also been made for transferring the Government to south-western France. No more than 800,000 or 900,000 persons are expected to remain in Paris itself. Banks and businesses have made full arrangements to transfer their head offices to towns in the southwest and the more valuable paintings in the Louvre are being removed to bombproof shelters. M. Herriot, mayor of Lyons, has appealed to everyone to leave the city for the country. During the night and morning further men were called up according to their individual qualifications.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1938, Page 5
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