The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-10-24
Of France" Which Be-
came Objective Of Kaiser's
Army From Start Of European
Struggle, Made Ready For a
Long Drawn Out Siege, Bene-
fitting by Lesson Learned From
Franco-Prussian Conflict.

~ATHEN the approach of the Ger
wv mans to Paris, the capital OF
France, through Belgium and
northern France became
threatening the Notifications Of Paris
and their ability to resist a siege re-
ceived the close attention Of military
observers.
Immediately after the signature of
peace Of 1871 General Rivers reorgan-
lied the Paris defenses and designed
the second line Of forts which have
since been constructed outside the de-
fensive line which resisted the Ger
man attack In 1870.
The German soldiers, upon approach
ing Paris, found all the positions they
took up In 1870 now occupied by
French defense works. These were ar
ranged in three main blocks-versailles
on the south and southwest, Vincennes
on the east and st. Denis OF the north,
each block forming a big intrenched
camp Of its own, each capable Of shell
tering an army Of 10000 men. The
perimeter Of the fortress as a whole
covers nearly ninety miles.
The new first line forts are In strik-
ing contrast with those Of the second
line, which were built In 1910, though
they have been brought up to date
and the bastion front has been replac-
ed by a ~polygonal terrace.
The city's Notifications which con-
fronted the kaiser's army consist of
kh~ao Itrkfnok ofroloc avound tho 0itv-
first, a solid wall of masonry eighteen
feet high extending for twenty-five
miles around the old sections Of Paris;
second, a system Of seventeen detached
forts, arranged at intervals, two miles
beyond the wall and making q circuit
Of the city four miles long, and, third,
an outer girdle of forts, s~eventy-hve
miles long, on the heights commanding
the valley Of the Seine.
Each of these circles of masonry and
steel was made so that it should
be a complete defense In itself, the
forts being linked together with re-
doubts, bastion and glacis which per-
NIT a crossfire against approach from
any direction. .
The magnitude of the system is
shown by its area, which exceeds 400
square miles.
PREPARATIONS FOR SIEGE
Paris prepared for a siege by the
Germany army by laying I'm provisions
and ammunition. The older Parisians
remembered their bitter experiences In
the war Of 1901. when e rats and
cats and dogs and the animals Of the
sociological garden gave up their lives
that humans might live and continue
TO resist the victorious Germans.
This time enormous stocks of food
were placed in the state warehouses
for the provisioning Of Paris The Bots
de Boulogne. transformed. presented a
picturesque aspect. 1t had been In ef-
feet transformed into n vast pasture,
filled with COWS and sheep. The ami
mails were divided into groups and
guarded by reserves, wearing the large
shirts of drovers.
The beautiful surroundings of the
of Bagatelle We're given over
entirely to sheep. The shepherds are
men who were called out by the mobi-
The number Of sheep pas
in the parks exceeds 10000.
FARMING
But before the Germans advanced
very near the city it was said that the
.ereh enttersties had 9 FOOD many J