The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-14
THE FARMER: FEBRUARY.14, .1914
PARIS AWAKES TO
 NEW WAR MENACE
French Authorities Find That Food Supplies Would Last
 But Four Days.

Paris. Feb. 14.-In case of war the city of Paris would probably find it.
 self without, bread within four days. This alarm has been sounded by the municipal council after a thorough , study of the possibilities and the an nouncement has resulted in popular demand for measures to assure an ample food supply in case of a con , hict. The Minister of War and the Under Secretary of State have de- cided to take up the whole question with the Municipal council for fur ther study with an endeavor to solve the problem.
 Military authorities point out that during the first few weeks of snobiii- zation in case of war, all railroad trains and lines would be reserved ex- clusively for military trains and no l supplies for the civil population could be transported. It has been propos- ed among other things to buy 10000 tons of four to be kept in public warehouse and to be used as heees- sity arises It is suggested that the state contribute immediately $90,O0o
 as first payment toward this and the municipality $40, 900. While the problem of sufficient supply of flour and wheat is considered most impor- tant the authorities axe also planning to conserve stocks of other necessary things, including wood, coal and oil. If, says Commander Dryant, a re- tired army official, Ian order of mo- bi1ization were given on Thursday, Paris would have neither bread, milk nor meat at the Beginning of next week. Another important question is that of the water supply. I would ask what Parisians would drink were Paris invested and cut off from it's water supply. This is a phase of the problem that the commission which ', i<yf4. consider thoroughly. We have ar rived at a time when all the prob l 1ens of national defence must be con- l sidered without delay
 | There is no nation naturally mu- sica1, according to Henri Bidou. critic and historian. If a nation is musical, he says, it is because it has passed through such tribulatfons that 1t has X been driven to express it's sorrow and anxiety in it's airs: and compositions. Bach, he declares, is the culTninatipg g expr ression of the sufferings induced l in Germany by the thirty years war, 1 fifty years before Bach's time.
 l People sing Hike cowards'' he con tinues, to keep up their spirits in bad I moments. and he finds that the real countries of music are nearly all frontier provinces exposed to eternal vicissifudes. England he finds to be exempt to a large extent from the occasions in | which poets s1earn in suffering vyhof 1 they celebrate in song, because it is l protected from invasion by the girdle of the seas. Music then, he argues. l is not art of peace; it originates in l strife and anxiety-not in tranquility and concorn. The ever pTospero us countries, he discovers, .snot only have no history; they have no nusic.''S l Consul General Mason has brought together the figures of French export l to the United States during 1913. They were s140,QI6, ,54e or $3,733, ,384 lar l ger than those of 1912, thus passip < I the total of any previous ear. The l net gain in three years mas been s21,- I 00a GOO. N
 The reports from the Paris district
 show that the exports If automobiles
 and automobile accessories which
 amounted to $1,2oe. .413 in 1912 was I cut in half during 1913. The ex- l ports of paintings, precious stones
 and hides show considerable advances l and the increases in textiles was
 | about sixty per. cent. Paris exports
 have risen in eleven years from $A1,-
 100000 to $80,000.00O.
 l Army experts are experimenting
 I with a new monoplane wF.ich is to be
 the dreadnougnt of the. French ati
 feet One of these machines already
 tried out is protected with armo1
 plates and carries a. quick firing l3la.
 chine-gun. It was. designed fro.r
 specifications. furnished by the lFrenct
 army aviation corps after . caref1
 fEtudy of the requirernents in war a. Africa and in the Balkan wars.
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