AMERICANS IN PARIS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2281, 15 October 1914, Page 2

AMERICANS IN PARIS

Very gradually, the life of Paris is ■settling down into something that is a faint but .steady echo of what it was two weeks ago (states tho Paris correspondent of "The Queen"). Foreigners aro still here, and Americans who are planning to leave for the United States aro keeping a certain number of the business iirms employed. . One or two dressmaking firms have announced in tho "New \'ork Herald" that they are open in the hope of doing business to allow them to keep their stalf of work-girls employed. The activity of tho Red Cross societies is unceasing, and every. day ono hears of some friend who has been, called to her post either at tho front or in one of the hospitals in Paris, in tho neighbourhood .of Paris, or in .tho provinces. AVomen with big properties of thoir own, or who have charge of their, husbands' estates, are every, day turning some part of them into hospitals and placing them at the disposition of tho'Government, i The white flag waves from a very largfe number of buildings nil over Pans, and there are few houses where clothing for «ho soldiers is not being made. There is a terrific rush from all classes to offer, service for the soldiers, and many come away disappointed at finding no active work to do at once.

Tho American colony in Paris has gone far in tho forming of a Red Cross hospital for French soldiers. Funds are being liberally subscribe and rapidly the work is taking useful shape. A good many English nurses, both trained and only partially so, have joined the Red Cross, and have gone out with the French regiments, particularly with those. which aro now in Belgium, where ii is considered that their knowledge of the two, languages will be oxtremcly useful.'.Numbers of men aro offering their services as interpreters to -tho two armies, but comparatively few are being chosen. The corps of English volunteers in Paris now numbers about 300, and they drill regularly at the Sallo Jouffrey, where there is also a. daily sowing meeting, of 'Englishwomen who are working, for the* English Red Cross ambulance which is be. ing formed. ' . The work of the American Church in the Avenue de l'Alraa has so far been chiefly directed to the succour of Americans stranded in Paris without money or lodging. They httve been lodged and fed w?t-li' the mission funds, and yery useful information has been given them to heli> them on their iway to more comfortable quarters. Beyond great discomfort and inconvenience, foreigners have really not suffered much from tlio present' crisis in Paris.