Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-28 | Page 2 | War Fear Sends Parisians Fleeing City by Auto, Bicycle and on Foot

War Fear Sends Parisians Fleeing City by Auto Bicycle and on Foot Fo t PARIS Aug 28 UP UP Thou Thousands Thou Thou- sands of Parisians streamed out of 1 the he city by ever every available gate today fleeing to provincial quarters quarters quarters reserved for them by the gov gov- For transportation they u used whatever er bicycles and automobiles had not been requisitioned for military military mili mUl- tary purposes Some were on an foot with pushcarts piled plIed high with be be- longings Other thousands Including women women women wo wo- men and children of all national national- lUes filled to capacity outgoing trains after the government had warned that this means of transportation transportation trans trans- might at any moment be restricted The U. U S. S embassy urged all Americans whose presence In Paris was not essential to leave th the city at once and proceed to seacoast points from which It may maybe maybe be c possible to evacuate them should the need come The official Journal published a decree today establishing censorship censorship censorship censor censor- ship of newspaper and other othe printed print print- ed matter French and foreign Photographs films and radio scripts must also be submitted to the censors The decree meant that all American and other for foreign correspondents correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents must submit their dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches to a censor censors effective at once No undeveloped ed photographic films or plates may be exported Premier Edouard Imposed Imposed imposed Im Im- posed the censorship as war minister minister min min- ister as he awaited the British cabinets cabinet's decision on Its Us reply to Adolf Hitler in the Polish dispute had made his own re reply reply reply re- re ply in a letter and In a formal accusing Hitler of re rejecting rejecting rejecting re- re peace efforts and putting on him the responsibility for any war Andre who as Perti nax is one of the country's leadIng leadIng leading lead- lead Ing political experts reported that would send a new letter replying to Hitler's today I He and others among the commentators commentators com com- menta tors were frank today in their belief that the European situation situation situation sit sit- was dangerous We must not fool ourselves wrote Peace Is in dan dan- ger We are near a complete rupture rupture rupture rup rup- ture said the Petit Parisien I Germanys answer Is blackmail dangerous blackmail as It brings bring Germany to the point either o of I capitulation or war said the Jour Jour- nal There was no sign of recession from Frances France's statement that 11 If Germany attacked Poland France would go at once to Polands Poland's aid ald