The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-14
PEOPLE OF PARIS NOT IN FEAR OF GERMAN CAPTURE.
Attend Theatres and Continue Business While Airships
 Hover Over City
WOMEN KEEN FOR CARE
 OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS
One Victim of War Shot Nine Times in One Leg, Says
 German Fire AnnihiIateS.

The people of Paris are not partic- ularly. worried that the city will fall before the advance of the Germans Even when the German airshtps were above the city dropping bombs near the St. Lazare station, business was conducted in a. normal manner and the theatres were open, but the French women rallied nobly to the care of the wounded which are in improvised hos pitals in what were once freight and passenger sheds along the railroad ines.''
 Thus spoke Paul Rouge, an ernploye of the American and British Manufac4 turing company, living at 12S9 Penn poke street, who returned. last night after three months trip in Germany, F'rence and Switzerland, where he vis- |ited his aged father for the first time in a, lapse of 27 years.
 Rouge left this country for Eufope June 20, going directly to Augsburg in Germany, where he stayed until the declaration of war. With many other American refugees he went to Lucerne in Switzerland where he remained un- til August 31, when he left for Paris, and thence three days later to Havre.
 Tn Germany he found tense feel ing against the French and English In Switzerland, the feeling was neu- tral, although the Swiss Guards were mob bilized on the frontier to resist in vasion by Germany,
 In Paris the principal scenes on the street were those of military arrival and departure. Commissary wagons going to the front and trains bearing the wounded returning. In a shed near Paris, Rouge talked with a French soldier who had been shot nine different times in the leg. The wound. ed man told Of terrible fire from the Germans, saying that the annihilation was something fearful. He declared, however, that as soon as possible he would again return to the front to fight for his country, displaying the usual courage and bitterness of the French against the enemy whom they declare brought on the war without excuse.
 The returned Bridgeporter had no difficulty with money during his trip, the express orders issued by Amert- can companies being recognized and cashed without protest. During all the war time troubles the French gov ernment has maintained it's establish ed scale of food prices which are not allowed to be advanced by speculation. Even the banks of the city are open during certain periods of the day.
 Thousands Of Douaves, or African battaIians of French soldiers, are in Paris, and keen to leave for the front. Under the French system the African contingent are kept in reserve much the same as the American national guard.
 On the railway trip from Paris to Havre where the traveller took the. steamer eFrance,t' landing in New York yesterday, many British soldiers make their headquarters and base of supplies. No Russian soldiers were seen by him.
 While in Paris, Rouge saw a zep- plin airship over the city. Several bombs were droped, doing little dam age to Buildings, but killing. one man. The French so1diery trained their spe- cial guns upon the big bag with the result that it collapsed and those on board fell a distance of about a thou sand feet, meeting instant death.