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Room chafed against this sentimental
restriction. The Parisians have too
much 10 eat and too little to digest.
wrote Room IN November. when the
situation IN Paris was fast approach.
ing the starvation stage. Iron pills,
namely. Of which too few have been
employed Though. certain Intri.
CUES stand in our way here. ! hope
that they the pills will take effect,
d would be too great a shame 20 iet
al the glory Of the war to 70 % TIE
devil in this way
Meanwhile from court to court
fhiers travelled gainly seeking 70 e.
feet a truce-"the French Govern
nent was az yet too unstable to deal
with was al the assurance he could
get By the middle Of November the
situation u the besieged Of Paris mad
crown appalling Horse ueat soar
ed IN price beyond al reach Rats.
selling a, 20 centimes apiece. were
being eagerly devoured Infants
were dying by the thousands for the
wsnt Of mix ard the whole death
rate had trebied in Few months A
bitter. unusual winter was setting
Ard iusf about this time. the Ger
mans. having settled their esihet.cs'
differences IN the matter 81 the bonn
bardment began throwing over
Rooms ",ron pills Some $4,000
.hots were fired n,o The city. and At
Us, after 1872 days ~ starvation and
appalling scenes Of misery and death,
Jules Favre was sent forth from
Paris 10 ask an armistice
Favre met Bismarck at Versailles
After the first situations. an eye
witness 81 the negotiations records
Favre SAID he hao come 70 renew the
negotiations Tor a truce Bismarck
interrupted him 20 say "The situs-
tior has changed ii you are still go
ing 10 say NOT an inch, not stone.
we may break of at once Ny time
is valuable and yours also I" Then
after a little more talk be- added
After all why should treat with
you? Why should give your ,rrer-
ular republic an appearance Of le-
ralty by signing an armistice with
Its representative? What are you
but rebels2 Your Emperor. II he
came back. would have the right 70
shoot every one Of you After a
few outbursts Of this kind. Bismarck
settled down to business. He asked
Favre to write down such condition
Of peace as seemed to him reason
able and that they would discuss them
the next day
The next day, Bismarck having
had interviews with the Emperor
william and Won Moltke. had anoth.
er interview with Favre and totally
ignoring Favre's propositions, sub.
mitted his own schedule for an ar
nistice. which was as follows
l. An armistiee for twcnty-one
days.
2 Disarmament Of the French
army, the latter TO remain IN Par
as prisoners Of war
B. The soldiers to give up arms
and banners officers to keen their
swords
& The armistice to extend al ov-
err France
d Paris 10 pay indemnity and
give up is forts TO the Prussisns
9. The Germans not 10 enter Par.
Il during the armistice.
2. Elections 20 be held throughout
france Cor national assembly 20
consider conditions Of peace
This was the preliminary draft %
Inc terms Of The ermlstice upon
which the Negotiations were opted
SOME notifications md changes were F
made beloEo the final signature nui
ilde Of Paris, tho French ARMIES ere
illl Ia The field fighting. lhelH lnsl-
~ declaring their determination b
'oullnue he fight until moru favor