Show 7 S s. GERMANS NEAR PARIS RENO RENCH PREPARE TO MOVE THE CAPITAL EOPLE FLEEING M FROM CITY j l TROOPS GATHER iI i IN ITS DEFENSE f. f 7 WASHINGTON Aug Ang 31 France France is considering the lit of oi moYin moving the seat scat of her government government from from Paris to Bordeaux IS s a precautionary measure according to official advices received ere lere today toda rl The c French fn foreign o office co has discussed i cussed the i idea a of m moving the pital wi with fore foreign diplomats so that they ther could make proper Arrangements I I It is considered consider dered d' d pr probable bahle that Ambassador will remain I im in Paris in order to better belter care rare for Americans should Paris be in invested in- in vested sted by the German anny army By Dr Associated Press PARIS Aug 31 31 1208 p. p m. All m. m All night long troops from tho south and west et of t France Trance arrived at the capital and nd passed by rail around tho the city to thol tho l locations in the encircling fortifications to which they havo have been assigned Thc There e is great activity on the part of or the municipal military administration In completing details of plans for the defense of ot Paris No official information regarding tho the military situation on the frontiers had been made public up to noon today Tho unusual animation to te bo noticed on the tho streets of oC Paris today was I c caused chiefly by the thousands of f persons who aro preparing to leave the cap cap- taL I Persons and taking their families with them as as' as a matter of ot prudence It Is 11 felt here that tho the fewer ver the number of ot noncombatants in the pity ty the bottor rf 1 Tickets Ticket for trains train leaving Parts Paris today to the west west and south were wore all aU sold sold out t last night I Trines ines of people stretched for tor blocks from the railway stations toda today today Tho Tim fines nell nes ro of ot those so ao anxious to leave the city that they thus early took their positions w waiting for the government offices to bo opened at 6 0 o'clock tomorrow morning orning v i All AU places on trains departing today havo have been sold Whole families with their hand band baggage camped in the lines where they thoy ate their meals meal and aDd sl slept pt as best beat they they- could could I Tim The Qua d dOr d'Or Orsay say station was closed at noon The crowd of or perhaps 1000 persons I then in line Une was told that no more marc tickets would be sold today Only a at alow low Jow ow left loft their places Tho The others resigned themselves to a a. wait of ot eighteen hours President Poincare who has been seen but rarely in public since the war began bagan being behig overburdened with wor work today visited the we military hospital of St St. Martin Hartin and spoke poke to many of ot tho wounded INVADERS ARE NEARING CAPITAL OF FRANCE PRANCE J By Associated Press Aug 31 31 5 3 ii cu ri m m. m Tho m-Tho Tho Tho Post today editorially calls attention to a state state- m mont nt issued by the French as In- In that the allied ameli forces have ve again been compelled to 10 fall tall back before the German Lerman advance in the neighborhood of La Lot Fere which h Is more than twenty miles I dearer Paris than the Ix Le Gateau Coteau III Olpe nt where the tho allies aUles reorganized after ater the Germans crossed the French b border 41 Is la also reported In the vIcinitY vIcin- vIcin My KY of or Amlen La Laere Fore ere la Is only a n little more than sixty mile from Paris as 01 tho the ero crow flies files ATho Tho Pot Port says say VA j. 1 statement Issued by the tho French J embassy em eni- bassy y a a. situation of at much gray grav fly ity A German arm army was on Saturday Attacking from tram the cast the tho lino on SIgn while another an another another an- an other German army urmy was attacking from the h he west Nest tho the line from La Fere er to Gubo Gulle and nd though unsuccessful at was making progress at La xa F Fore Fere rc e two German armies were therefore therefore there there- fore ore only lort forty miles a apart art i f r rTh The German army army armi attacking on on tho the front at Guise and La Fere has clear ar country behind It It and n a sharp harp offen offensive turning movement on the southeast allt hy by by this army will Interpose It between the French line lino and Paris ParI f p |