Show CHAOS IN FRANCE RESULT OE STRIKE Business in Paris at a Standstill as i Result of Strike of Telegraphers and Postal Clerks Famine May Result If Settlement Is Not Effected as Banks Refuse + Payment on Checks and Supply Sup-ply of Foodstuffs May be Curtailed Paris Thero Is not the slightest Indication of a break in tho deadlock between the government and Its striking strik-ing telegraphers and postal employes nor is there any prospect of nn Improvement Im-provement In the situation The strike however will ho considered In tho chamber of deputies and a solution solu-tion may then bo furnished Tho cabinet has passed a decree I authorizing the dismissal of the strikers strik-ers from the state Service and re panned its determination not to yield yieldWith With the failure of the carriers to deliver letters In Paris on Thursday he chaos was complete The entire public service Is paralyzed and business busi-ness both public and private Is in confusion The situation in the capItal cap-ital and tho provinces grows worse every hour Tho undelivered letters number Into tho millions and not less than 300000 telegrams were stacked up Thursday forenoon awaiting dlstrl bullon Foreign Incoming mails remain re-main unsorted and only a small proportion pro-portion of the outgoing malls have boon sent away A few days more of these condl Ions and Paris will be reduced almost to a state of siege as far as food Is concerned The funds necessary for the smooth running of the provincial trail aro hung up in the postoinco and tho supply of eggs uiilk butter meat and country produce threatens speedily to cease Already merchants havo been obliged to send agents to the provinces to obtain supplies The banks are withholding payment on checks in tho absence of advices from their correspondents and prices at tho stores aro soaring A large body of strikers gathered at the Central telegraph station Thursday and threatened a breach of peace but when they found a company com-pany of Infantry In rooms adjoining the train offices they left without creating any disturbance The real lenient of danger Hen in the threat of tho General Confederation of Labor La-bor whloh is purely a revolutionary organization and the railroad unions to declaro sympathetic strikes |