PARIS PAPERS AGAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1920, Page 3

PARIS PAPERS AGAIN

DELIGHTED READERS. PAMS, Dec. 3. Paris Midi! Information? When this morning towards luncheon time these familiar names of midday newspapers resounded for the first time for three weeks along the Boulevards, people going to lunch looked up, smiled, and rushed to buy the news-sheets that had come-back at last. The papers were fingered greedily ,and the tubes and omnibuses were again alive with the rustle of the sheets and the inky smell of them fresh from the press.

Parisians, who during the war had gone cheerfully without meat or coal, and had borne with good humour the transport troubles, felt keenly 7 the absence of favourite newspapers during the compositors’ and pressmen’s strike for«m extra 4s a day.

The Presse de Paris, the joint antistrike newspaper, this morning hade farewell to its readers. “This is the first time in history that a newspaper with a 5,000,000 circulation has stopped publication. It does so with the strong conviction of having been of use to the public—the natural business of the Press—and to have served the cause of free thought—the duty of writers.” To-morrow all the morning papers reappear, including the Continental Daily Mail, which during the strike issued type-written sheets of tabloid news to its subscribers, and occupied half a column in. English in the Presse de Paris.