The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-11-21
PARIS REEVES As
GERMANS RETREAT
Thousands Who Deserted City
When German Army Was
Near Are Focking Back.
BY WEss MILLER.
Onited Press Staff Correspondence

iTH&E 1922 2
Paris.-tby mail.)-The hundreds OF
thousands of persons who took their
vacations" or found pressing business
IN the south OF France a few months
g when the Gerrnansxere only 4o
mics away and Big Bertha was speak
ing regularly, are flocking back The
CITY IS regaining Its old time yivacity.
Ine b~oulevards and sidewalk cafes are
oVerIloWtng every afternoon with gay
CROWDS strolling in the bright autumn
sunshine. and shops that We're closed
in the summer are reopentng.
Within q fortnight after h allied
Eunland the vanguard OF the army OF
sheii began to flow back to
Paris. Now tsae~ invasion is in full
swing. The hotels are doing a rushing
business and nearly every hotel of i'm
portance is packed full every Gay. In
coming Officers and soldiers with = few
days leave in Paris, are finding diff
Guilty an getting any sort of a room.
Many OF them are forced to visit q
half dozen, hotels before finding a va
cant room. In hotels where only q
score OF faithfuls remained through
4 vacant room. And the well known
law Of supply and demand is getting IN
it's worls-tlle prtces are being showed
UP notch by notch.
Although to the casual observer the
number of people that stayed lii Paris
through the period of anger 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. Undentably
\ vast number left h city. Now
they're all coming back. and more, too.
The allied successes AVE tended TO
stimulate business to a surprising ex-
Etnpt n yaI q fo ~ nnrannf3 Oa Of the IN
vaders are provincial business people
in Paris on buying trips. And syeiy-
one OF them brings his whole family
and spends a week OF 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 geing UP a few centinaes At q time.
The influx of people has served to
brighten the city In many ways: At
least five rheaters that have been
the movie theaters on the boulevards
are crowded every afternoon and
night. In Difference to the thousands
Of British and American soldiers In
town, the moving picture house are
using many American films and run
french and English. TO the American
"movie"-or, at most, 10 cents Or a
quarter-the prices Of from 30 cents to
81 are staggering. But they pay the
prices gladly to gets glimpse OF black
home" even II it Is usually New Jersey
or California. The 25-cent American
magazines sell for IS cents.
A number of the recent newcomers
are buyers from the big fashionable
wonlen's stores from every large city
In the allied and neutral world. For
the usual autumn fashion shows are In
full blast, In q score OF the establish
ments that set the fashions from Vlad-
ivostok to Melbourne. Some of the
buyers are from such far away places
as Buenos Aires, Rio and Toxic, with
a goodly proportion from Chicago, New
York and London and the Scandi-
nayian capitals.
With the city full Of visitors the
$3.50 closing decree becomes a real
hardship-upon the restaurant men
when 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 darketied
~boulevards, the wise ones say that
places can b. found where the cursew
can't be heard.