The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-11-21
PARIS REEVES As
GERMANS Retreat
Thousands Who Deserted City
When German Army Was
Near Are Tocking Back.
~ WEBB MILLER.
United Press staff CorrsspondeNt.


(by mail.)-The hundreds o.
thousands Of persons who took their
vacations" or found pressing business
in the south OF France a few months
g when the Germans were only 40
miles away and Big Bertha was speak
nj regularly, are flockjng back. The
city Is regaining its old time vivacity.
The bOulevards and sidewalk cafes are
crowds stroliing in the bright autumn
sunshine, and shops that were closed
suddenly in the summer are r~eopening:
Within q fortnight after the allied
push showed the Germans back TOWARD
Hunland, the vanguard Of h army OF
shell dodgers" began to flow back 10
Paris. Now the invasion is in fun
swing. The hotels are doing a rushing
business n nearly every hotel or I'M
>portance is packed full every day. In
coming officers and soldiers with a few
days leave in Paris, ave finding diff
Guilty In getting any sort OF q room.
Many OF them are forced to visit q
half dozen hotels before finding n va
cant room. In hotels where only a
score OF faithfuls emained hrough
July and August, there is o not
q vacant room. And the well known
law Of supply and demand is getting In
it's work-the prices are being showed
UP notch by notch.
Although TO the casual observer the
number OF people that stayed In PARIS
through the period OF danger or IN
Nasion was remarkable, 1t was notlce-
able that most Of the people or the
streets were soldiers whose business
kept them in the city. Undeniaely
a vast number left the city. Now
they're all coming back, n more, 100.
Tho allied successes have tended 10
stimulate business to a surprising e&-
tent and a fair percentage OF the IN
yaders are provincial business Reo2!e
in Paris on buying trips. And eVeiy-
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 OK
the allies victories was to raise tho
rate Of exchange upon French money.
In the last few weeks the rate mas
been going Up q few confines At q time.
The influx OF people has. served 70
brighten the city in many ways: Al
least five theaters thnt have been
closed for some time are reopening. Al
the movie theaters on the 'bouieVaros
are crowded every afternoon u
night. In Difference to the thousahas
OF British and American soldiers ia
town, the moving picture houses are
using many American films n run roth
Itlk NthlS Ntth PtbN
French and English. To the American
soldier accustomed to his nickel
"movie"-or, at most, 10 cents or a
ouarter--the prices Of from 80 cents to
81 are staggering. But they pay the
prices gladly to get a glimpse OF back
home" even IL 1t IL usually New Jersey
or California. The 25-cent American
magazines sell for Sc cents.
A number Of the recent newcomers
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 q score Of the establish
ments that set the fashions from vlad-
iyostok to Melbourne. Some or the
buyers are from such far away places
as Buenos Aires. Rio and Toxic, with
a soodly proportion from Chicago, New
York and London and the Scandi-
navian capitals.
With the city fun Of visitors the
$50 closing decree becomes a real
herdship-upon the restaurant 9
when thousands are "all dressed up and
no place to co. after the curfew dark
ems the lights. -
Although many pass the III by
strollins aimlessly along the d~arkened
~boulevards, the wise ones say that
places can be found where the curfew
can't be heard.