ADVANCING TROOPS INSUFFICIENT TO BESIEGE PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 5

ADVANCING TROOPS INSUFFICIENT TO BESIEGE PARIS.

Pa.rls, September 2. The military oritio of the "Temps" says: "There is no reason to be unduly alarmed by the German advance on our left. The German troops there are quito insufficient to besiege Paris. , , , "The important point is the centre, where the advance is checked. Xlie Germans aj'o believed to be at the limit of their effort." London, September 2. Reuter's Paris agent states that numbers of people are leaving the city, mostly provincials ana men who are removing their families m order to avoid hampering the dofenco. VICTORY.FOR HIM WHO OAN SUFFER LONGEST. (Rec. September 3, 11.20 p.m.) London, September 3. 'A' message from Paris states that M. Clemenceau, writing to "L'Homme Libre," points out that all the .fighting that has taken place> has been intended to harass tlio invaders and to defend every inch of the grouml. Much time and suffering are needed before Germany can be caught in the iron vice of France, England, and Russia. , ■ ~ In the words of a 'Japanese General: "The final victory will be for him who is able to suffer a quarter of an hour longer than his adversary. ,ine enemy's offensive is doubtless very formidable, but it will find everywhere an unrelenting defence, ready to become offensive in its turn. Paris will nave at its disposal a very mobile force which may choose the hour for delivering a blow. M. Clemenceau has been for over forty years one of the foremost figures in French politics, making and Unmaking Ministries. He was first elected as a member of the National Assembly of 1871, and one of his first acts in politics was to vote against peace preliminaries with Germany, ine ■*' I,ms " try of which he was Primo Minister fell in 1900, after a dramatic verbal duel in the Chamber between Mmself and M. Delcasse on the state of the rrencii Navy. .