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Show AMUSEMENT PLACES CLOSED UP BY WAR French GovemmeDt Takes Steps to Conserve Coal Supplies ia -Every Quarter. PARIS, March 10. Following directly on the decree ordering the closing of all pastry cooks' shopf, confectioners' shops and tea whops two days In each week, the Koveniinent hus now decided. In order to conserve the coal supply for both war factories and for domestic consumption, to clone all places of amusement for four days a week. The terms of the order Include theaters, thea-ters, nuiKlc halls and picture palaces, and all museums and national monuments will he cloHud till further notice. A t the same time the omnibus, tramway tram-way and tube railway services will ceue Jit 10 o'clock every night except on Thin sda y.H, .Saturdays and Sundays. It ha? ben derided that the employees of the t beaters, halls and cinemas phall Tif't he the loners by the new decree. The various mana vmem s will be ordered to Pkv their staff half salaries on closing days and the state will pay the other half. More stringent measures are likely to ho Imposed In t he early future. Jn all probability tlie laro shops and stores will have- to clo?e one dav a wrek and pos-slhlv pos-slhlv two days, or alternatively will bo o rri r red to cl ose eve ry e v en i n g u.t 6 o'rlof'k. It is alpo extremely probable that taxi-cabs taxi-cabs will he ordered to cease running after a certain hour In the evening, ond the government Is credited with the de-terminatlon de-terminatlon to make the railway companies compa-nies reduce their services a till further. |