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Show FRENCH NEWSPAPERS AGIIi NORMAL World wide Conflict Has Had Much Effect Upon Journals of Capital SOME DO NOT SURVIVE Readers Are Learning to Demand Reliable News Tersely Written By GEORGES DTJTRESNE Special Cable to Tl e Tr bune PRIS Aprl 10 After many months the Paris papers baie at last rega ned tbe r usual appearance aud we no long rr hae to be satisf ed with tbe single sheets 1 ttle larger than handkerch efs to which the threatened paper fara ne reduce"! all Par s newspapers bt 11 things are far from normal vet and it seems ages sinco the camelots (newsboys) when there was a spec a I demand for papers gathered 1 ke small arm es in tbe s de streets off the boule vards suddenly to burst forward 1 ke a yclone shout ng the sensation of the day The papers that sell best now are the afternoon edit ons which conta n the communique The French newspaper reader now demands from hjs favor te paper someth ng ent rely d fferent from vhat captured his interest in t me of peace All that s sow asked for is qu ck and reliable news The only rea on I can f nd why a paper like La Liberte has dur ng the war in reased its circulat on from 60 000 to "50 000 is that it appears at the proper ho r and has gained a reputation- for be il reliable and patriotic It is cer ta nfv no better than it waa before and tics des the off cial news it only g es vou a few echoes lfttle in c dents from the trenches wh ch are al wa s well told Gams in Growth Noted L Intrans geant the modest bt tie afternoon paper wh ch formerly ha 1 a hard struggle with Par a Midi and Par s Sport is now sold even where because of ts letter box, which con tains personal impress ona and expen ences of poets and art sts at the front brilliantly edited bv Fernarid D voire The Bonnet Rouge has placed collection boxes in all tobacco shops in which cua tomers may put tobacco for the eol diers. and this dea has made the paper popular Of course the war has killed a num bef of papers, while it fatally hurt oth ers. This s the case with nearly all the real boulevard papers which ex sted on their telegrams and the great mercant le exhibitions. Among those that qu ckly disappeared were the ant clerical La Lanterne the 1 beral L Evenement La Rappel the Bona partist c L Autor te and the soc ety pa per & 1 Bias The latter, which will see its resurrect on after the war was ed ted bv a staff of young boulevard journal sis who are now all at the front Someth ng s railar s the case w th the powerful Matin whose ch ef strength was that it was a joung paper Dur ing the first months of the war its circu lat on dropped from 800 000 to 300 000 Jsow it has almost recovered pr nc pal 1) because of the small maps of the battlef eld wb ch became is spec al feature and which are far better than the off c al commun que for show ng the actual situation Le Journal Fares 111 The c rculat on of Le Journal dropped from 1.400 000 to 500 000 cop es but now its circulation is once more normal Th s is. in the f rst place, due to Abel Hermant s masterly word pa nt ngs, Heures de guerre de la tamille Valad er wh ch depict the ef fects of the war upon a htt e bourgeo s family and wh ch appeal to and f t tbe mood of thousands of French all over the country Le Journal has had better luck than Matin, as se eral of its best writers have beep exempt from mil tary duty as for instance the famous war corre spondent Andre Tudesque who now spends h s t me rac ng n i s auto be tween the front and the ed tor al of f ces n Rue R chel eu and men like Jacques Djssort and Lrnest la Jeun esse hile papers 1 ke Le Pet t Par s en and Le Pet t Journal both w th c rcu lat ons excede ng one m 11 on ha e kept up the r circulat on outs de of Par s and even have ga ned a reputat on n c rcles where they had none before the paper wh ch during the war has become acknowledged leader of the Par s press is L Echo de Par s whose c rculat on s s x t mes as large now as before the war Th s enormous ncrease s due to three causes the strongly patr ot c sp r t of the paper Paul Bo rget s sketches and the daily ed tor al by Maur ce Barres who from aesthet c an has become be-come a magn ficent leader of publ o op n on The ed tor al was formerly wr tten by Albert de Mun whose death dur ng the ery beginn ng of the war was greatly deplored throughout France Le Figaro Moves On Unaffected one way or the other as far as c r ulat on though not as fa as reputat on s cons dered stands Le F garo wh le Le Jjaulo s g ves its whole atte t on to soc ety char t es and the Red Cross The ed tor of the latter paper Arth r Mejer descendant of a poor Copenhagen Jew s one of the foremost -journal sts n France and thro gh h s n ar age to a ladv of the bl est blood n the country a Countess le T renne he has ga ned entrance nto the most exclus e r les and s d rect touch witl everyth ng n the h ghest eccles ast c spheres lso the organ of the joung Royal sts L .ct on rranca se strong y ant sem tic and n favor of a coup d stat and ed ted by the personal ft eud r of the Duke of O leans Leon Daudet has been, benef ted through the war Bes des theso old and well known morning papers there are others wh ch yo read irom cur Ob ty, hi- t of all of course Ciemenceau s L Honin e in cha ne in vrh ch the old pol t cal war horse daily chast ses the adm n stra t on the is fous departments and h a enemy the censor q s art cles are often wr tten so that he has ant c pated lust where the censor w 11 step n and by prepar ng h s readers for th s he ery often prod ces com cal eiiects Socialist Organ Suffers The Soc al st paper L Human te suf fered a great loss when its editor. Juares was m rdered and is not read very much wh le the former ant m 1 tanst Custave Herve s paper La Cuerre boc ale has ga ned tho sands of readers Her e now strongh patr ot e recei es a state subs dy Vhen he olunteered for m litar service he was told he would be more valuable f he rema ned in h s editor al cha r Because of the spec al educat on of he Par s journal st who was always taught to hunt for sensat on and strong colo s you f nd in the Par s papers very few ell wr tten descr pt ons of events at the front s ch as ou read n Eng 1 sh and Amer can papers There are a nun ber of s nail Echos spdend dly wr tten but son ehow thev do not m press you as verj real tho lack the 1 ttle deta 1 wh h transfo ms 1 te a ture nto real 1 fe Ivot one of tbe many Par s an o nal ts who ha e sted the front has wr tten a y thing that be g ns to compare w th the n asterl pen p ctureB ou read n papers wr tten n line Engl sh la guage |