| Show PARISIANS po ARB AI BB APATHETIC to Realize the Calamity ia I Martinique Paris May lay ay U The American visit visitors ors ore here ere cannot understand the tae seem seeming leg IDS Indifference In of the Parisians in Sn regard renard to the tM Martinique disaster Be vend the half lags gags over ovet the t government offices there then are no O signs of or public mourning The he le Sack leek to 0 their usual reports attend the Uie rc fill the theatre none noise of which has hN bees bean closed dosed no so extras are Issued and AM aa there te Is BO no demand for tor them thara But t the evening papers containing coat ahaz balls tin U this of or the automobile races ro are an eager esger ly 11 purchased pu based various Carious funds being raised for fort forthe the t re cf of o the Martinique sufferers now mow only tO l franca ra including the large of et f the be foreign potentates potentate and the 20 O Mi francs fanes f ft from the The seem more interested in the disaster than I II the capitaL casual They T yare are actively organ I izing bing committees B to raise ra tuMs and there is 18 much mourning at the sea Ha seaports seaports ports whose whOle ships were destroyed A representative of ot the Associated I Press Pre MS has jast returned frem from the mitt min ministry m try of the colonies Besides the re reporters reP reporters porters P those who were in the walt watt mg ing recur ream around the green board OR Jt which the official o bulletins are ue posted potted were ware almost exclusively lI native oC of 0 Martinique Occasionally a woman mea Is 18 Issued sued from the ministers room ia la tears after learning the fate tte of some loved one ODe The opposition is beginning be nning to use nan the cataclysm as r a club to beat bet the government The nationalist t Pat Pet Patrie Patrie Pettie rie tie says We hoped that the fetes at Brest Breet would have been countermanded on ona account a nt of or the catastrophe over which foreign sovereigns courts and perils parlia parliaments meats ments are mourning mere iere then than our cor own authorities The Tha flags dogs are ace masted muted but the military honda bands are playing as an if I bO Frenchmen Frenchman had not perished pert lied An American who has resided here for a long time said Aid The Parisians Part are constitutionally unable to become deeply interested in anything ng not connected with the tle cap ital Have you yen 1 not d that th t the papers are giving more space apace to the Humbert easa cas than to the terrible lose 1015 of oC life Ute at Martinique while early oady this week weak they devoted pages pege to the death of ot the aeronaut and only two columns te to t the e West Indian catastrophe phe pu |
