Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-09
BORDEAUX UNABLE
TO HOLD REFUGEES
Influx Continues and Govern
ment Is PerpIexed How to
Care for All.
. BY the United Press.

BORDEAUX, Sept. 9.--This city,
the temporary capital of France, is
filled with refugees from the north,
whose care is seriously troubling the
government. The department of the
interior. which is in general charge of
ration work. is so congested that
there Is much suffering among the
refugees and little chance Of speedy
relief
The influx continues. Every Paris
ian who has felt compelled to leave
his home insists on accompanying
the government here The result has
been that all buildings are crowded,
the university buildings and other
public structures have been fitted up
as lodging houses, and even so there
Is not enough room.
According to the official reports
received by the interior department,
the military census showed that
already the population of Paris has
! decreased 80 per cent, 1t is expected
| that between 30 and 60 per cent. of
| the Parisians will have moved to the
| south.
The government is encouraging the
exodus. Although the reports from
| the front indicate that the German
| advance has been checked there is no
attempt made to disguise the belief
that this success of the French arms
may only be temporary and that real
| fighting may yet take place at the
| capital. 1t Is natural that the nom
combatants should go out of the city.
All of the large towns on the main
road directly south of Paris are re-
| ported filled with refugees. Not only
do they come from Paris, but there
are many thousands who fled from
the north in front of the advancing
| German host.
The result is that travel on the main
roads is very slow and thousands of
women and children who left most of
their belongings behind when they fled
from the theatre of battle are forced
to take refuge in barns or to sleep In
the open fields, depending on the au-
thorities in the towns along the route
for food, which is freely given.
There has been real suffering among
these refugees. Frail women stagger
along, carrying their babies, with
other children, many of them hardly
able to walk. Juggling at their skirts
There is a genuine feeling of comrade-
ship, however, and every vehicle NOV
ing along the roads Is damned with
the women and the babies.
One sad feature of the exodus is
the fact that many families have be-
come separated in the flight, and up
to the present it has been impossible
to reunite them. The government Is
establishing bureaus of information
at the various towns south of Paris
and a general list of all refugees Is
being compiled.
Foreign Minister Delcasse today
declared that he had confidential in
formation showing beyond question
that the internal situation in Ger
many is serious. He said; despite
all the efforts of the German govern
ment to stimulate enthusiasm by the
news of victories the people of Berlin
: and Germany generally are plunged
in grief.
mourning is universal Business IL
completely Frustrated and the cost
of living throughout all Germany
rises daily. The prices of refrigerated
supplies and canned goods continue
to advance as well as those for the
fresh food"