Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-31
Arrived Paquebot La France" August 20,
 First Steamer from Have Since the War, SEVENTY Y-ONE PARIS GOWNS AND WRAPS
To Be Shown i'm the Fashion Salons of the WAnamaker
 Store, Monday August 31s and Tuesday, September l.

ing with us q nstire boy to show the way fo Harre.
 Our difficulties seemed over. At high speed ve flew along the smooth road.
 But our troubles had only begun. ~Halte-
 Seventeen times that word had been fhnndered at us.
 Seventeen times we had been forced to halt and show our papers.
 The minutes were slipping by and the France was to sail at midnight. The serrnteenth time we came to rest at a iitsry camp only twenty. six miles from Havre.
 Four armed sentinels barred the way.
 An officer.was routed out of bed. He refused to pass us. Another of. ficer was summoned. He examined the night pass and to our dixmav found the Rouen Commissariat had failed to date 1t.
 The car was surrounded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.
 Now the officer was mad. indeed. 'Where is the passport for this boyT was asked-the boy we had taken on at Rouen. We had none. ~DeScendez~ ~ came the order.
 The poor lad, frightened half out of his wits, made no move to leave the seat.
 "En jodew (get ready to shootl, roared the lieutenant
 For one second every one was petri. fled Then the chauffeur gave the boy push, '-Get down faster than you ever did anything in your life," he said in French
 The boy claInbered down. At a word two soldiers took hold Of him and marched him away-undeP ar rest. We never saw the lad again, but undoubtedly he was released in the morning and Sent home happy with. the fee we had giveu him to act as courier.
 Then the automobile was ordered to turn round and wait for morning There wax a bridge in front Of uS In turning we got near the bridge. The officer thought we were trying to escape. "Halte,D and the soldiers started to bayoDet the tires
 How we turned do not know, but vc managel it. without losing either our tires or our lives. and hack to the nearest town we went with a sad heart, thinking we had missed the boat.
 My departing memory of that mid night camp is of sentinels with pointed bayonets and a very angry adjutant.
 The next morning ve decided to go co Havre, as the Chicago was also there. Three times we covered that hit of road. passing through the camp in the gray of the morning.
 And great was our joy when we pulled into Havre to find that the France was still there, her sailing again delayed.
 On her decks were the Americans who had been there idle for more than a week, while was getting those much,Santed fashions in Paris.
 The baskets. with their precious freight, and the other parcels were placed on board
 Four days later we sailed, reaching New York August 70. the first French ship to reach our shores since the war.
 And the first--and latest-French fashions.
 VIII.
 While in Hayre wanted to get : photograph of the car which had car ried the firSt Paris fashions to Amer ica. Loaded with the bags and bas- kets, we drew up the automobile in front of the Hotel de Vile oS a good background, and the photographer prepared to make the exposure. But an official rushed up to us;-
 SYou will all be in jail in two min ates," he cried. "Stop, Stop"
 And 30 we have no photograph to show here as a souvenir of that wild night ride.
 But the gowns are here.
 The gowns are here. he gowns! You may in the Wanamaker the most notable col-