Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-02
PARIS NOT AFRAID
OF GERMAN ARMY
Sends ScornfuI Reply to BAR
barians" Who Demand Sur
render of City.
RAID BY KAiSER'S TROOPS
REGARDED AS NOT LIKELY
London Correspondent Says
Partisan Shops and Cafes
Are Opening.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON. Sept. with the Ger
mans so near there has not been a
day in the last month when Paris
presented the appearance of such
complete calm" says the Paris cor
respondent of the Chronicle. More
shops are open and rooms of chairs
have appeared before the chief cafes.
THE possibility of German raid is
very slight. Solitary fortresses may
perhaps be taken, but the attempt to
cut down the Disc valley toward
Paris, except as a trivial raid with
out first routing the masses of the
army, is madness.
I'VE may assume, therefore, that If
the Germans have faced eastward
and turned their backs on the British
and other forces gathering in Picardy
IAN old province in the north of
France, but now forming the depart
ment of Somme and part of Disc pas
de Calais and Aisne) they must either
win an immediate victory or risk be-
ing caught between the hammer and
! the anvil.
even Victory VIII Not Avail"
'Tf they win they will still have to
meet other armies, including the large
Russian army.
Common sense Is shown in prepar-
ing against any contingency
More than one edition daily of any
newspaper Is prohibited on pain of
permanent suppression and the lights
on the Seine bridges and the riverside
have been greatly reduced.
considerable change is perceptible
I In the military situation and 1T Is be-
1ieved that the French and British
Iukt Ill fnr GnT-
man turning movement by Western
Belgium. which cost enormous losses
and risks, has been successful, but
now the position is very different. The
best Prussian and Hanover troops
are now exhausted and the Germans
have now the main bodies of the al
lies to meet.
1.-THE forts on which so many brains
have been spent are not silenced.
What prospective defeat, fight and
piecemeal slaughter is open for the
the Germans!
French Slowly Retreat at Sedan.
b Near Sedan the French troops had
to effect a slow retreat, but 1t re-
PEELED another German attack, and In
so doing, inflicted heavy German
losses Fresh German reinforcements
then appeared from Rocroi, forti-
fed town in the Department of Ar
dennes making towards and
fighting Is now going on between
-" and the Meuse.
(The names were expunged by the
censor.)
1.-THE official note on the fighting
describes it as a kind of siege war
fare. AS every position previously
captured by the French in the Vosges
region has been strengthened and or
ganized, the French advance there Is
necessarily slow.
* "Parisans, in reply to the message
from the German acceptance to sur
render, say: What did you bring
under your wing that we should sur
y render to you? You brought death
bomb That is all, That is why
you will never have Paris Paris Is
, civilization in its beauty. You are
: barbarism In its uglness.'
MANY wounded continued to ar
rive in Paris, some with trophies.
such as swords and helmets.
1.-THE Red Cross ladies here have
been officially informed that twelve
of their number were killed and that
others are missing"