Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-11-21
PARIS REEVES AS
GERMANS RETREAT
Thousands Who Deserted City
When German Army Was
Near Are Flocking Back.
BY WEBB MILLER,
United Press Staff Correspondent.


Paris,-(by mail.)-The hundreds Of
thousands of persons who took their
vacations" or found pressing business
In the south of France a few months
when the Germans were only 40
miles away n Big Bertha was speak,
ing regularly, are flocking back. The
city is regaining it's old time vivacity.
The ~boulevards and sidewalk cafes are
Overlooking every afternoon with gay
crowds strolling in tie bright autumn
sunshine. and shops that were closed
suddenly in the summer are %reopening.
Within a fortnight after the allied
push showed the Germans back toward
Hunland, the vanguard OF the army of
shell dodgers" began to flow back to
Paris. Now the invasion is in full
swing. The hotels are doing a rushing
business and nearly every hotel of i'm
p%ortance is packed full every lay. In
coming officers and soldiers with a few
days leave in Paris, are finding diff
Guilty in getting any sort OF a room.
Many of them are forced to visit a
half dozen hotels before finding a va
cam room. In hotels where only a
score of faithfuls remained through
a vacant room. And the we'll known
law of supply and demand is getting In
its work-the prices are being showed
up notch by notch.
Although to the casual observer h
number of people, that stayed in Paris
through the period of danger OF IN
vasion was remarkable, it was notice
able that most of the people of the
streets were soldiers whose business
kept them in the city. Undeniably
a vast number left the city. Now
they're all coming back, and more, too.
The allied successes have tended 10
stimulate business to a surprising ex-
<o~t or1 q foir rorOonfoo 90 0f the inc
vaders are provincial business people
in Paris on buying trips. And every.
one Of them brings his whole family
inc spends a week or two and many
francs enjoying the metropolis:
One OF the most immediate effects OF
rate Of exchange upon French money.
In the last few weeks the rate has
been going up a few centimes at a time.
The influx of people has served to
brighten the city in many ways: AT
least five theaters h a have been
the movie theaters on the b~oulevards
SIRE crowded every afternoon and
night. In Difference to the thousands
Of British and American soldiers IN
town, the moving picture houses are
using many American films n rum
French and English. To h American
"movie'-or, at most, 10 cents or q
quarter-the prices Of from 30 cents to
81 are staggering. But they a the
prices gladly to get a glimpse of back
home,' even IL 1t is usually New jersey
or California. The 25-cent American
magazines sell for 65 cents.
A number Of the recent ewcomer
are buyers from the big fashionable
women's stores from every large city
in the allied and neutral world. For
the usual autumn fashion shows are in
full blast in a score of the establish
ments that set the fashions from Vlad-
ivostok t o Melbourne. Some Of the
buyers are from such far away places
as Buenos Aires Rio and Tokio.' with
a goodly proportion from Chicago. New
York and london and h Scandi-
navian capitals.
with the city full Of visitors the
$3.50 closing decree becomes a real
hardship-upon the restaurant men-
whom thousands are "all dressed up and
no place to go" after the curfew dark
ems the lights.
Although many pass the time by
strolling aimlessly along the darkened
~boulevards. the wise n say that
places can be found where the curfew
can't be heard.