France

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 5, 24 August 1914, Page 5

France

COMMERCE RESUMING NORMAL CONDITIONS.

Paris, August 22. ,The bulk of the rolling stock is resuming commercial traffic. Supplies'of all provisions are plentiful and (J'lieap, as the number of consumers has diminished. Veal sells

wholesale at fid to 5d per lb, and beef a penny more. These are almost the lowest prices recorded.

The Petit Parisian states that General Joseph Gardibaldi, and two others of Garibaldi's grandsons, have arrived

from Mexico, and offer to form a volunteer legion. They declare that they

can raise 50.000 men

The police are prosecuting two large wholesale meat speculators for attempting to corner supplies.

GERMAN PRISONERS AND A FOREIGN LEGION.

Paris, August 23.

A thousand German prisoners from Belgium were embarked at Dunkirk, and were taken to a western French port for internment.

Eighteen thousand foreign volunteers have been enrolled and paraded in the Invalides under the Hugs of their respective nationalities. They include 4500 Tews, 4500 Italians, 3000 Belgians, 2GOO Russians. 2000 Swiss, 1006 Spaniards, 400 Britishers, and. 125 Americans.

THE GALLANT SON OF DREYFUS.

(Received 8.15 a.m.)

Paris, August '2B'

Dreyfus' eldest son, fighting at Mulliausen has been promoted on the bsttelfiekl for gallant behaviour.