Show CHAOS IN HIS nr OF athil business in paris at a standstill as result of strike of telegraphers and po postal stal clerks famine may result if settlement is not effected as banks refuse payment on cheeky cheav and supply of foodstuffs may be curtailed parts parla thero there Is not the slightest indication of a break in the deadlock between the government and its striking telegraphers telegraph era and postal employed emp loyes nor Is there any prospect of an improvement pro in the situation the strike however will be considered in ill the chamber of deputies and a solution may then be furnished the cabinet has passed a decree authorizing the dismissal of the strikers front from the state service and reaffirmed its determination not nol to yield with the failure of the carriers to deliver letters in paris on thursday the chaos WB wan complete the entire public service Is paralyzed and business both public and private la Is in confusion the situation in the capital and the provinces grows brows worse every hour the undelivered letters number into the millions and not less than telegrams were stacked up lip thursday forenoon awaiting distribution foreign incoming malls remain unsorted cd and only a small proportion of the outgoing mails dialls have been sent away A few days more of these bondt conditions and paris pails will be reduced almost to a state of siege as tar far as food Is concerned the funds necessary essaiy for the smooth running of oc the provincial trade are hung up in the postoffice post office and the supply of eggs muk milk butter meat and country produce threatens tb speedily to cease already merchants have been obliged to send agents to the provinces to obtain supplies tho the banks are withholding payment on oil checks in the absence of advices advises from their correspondents and prices nt at the stores are soaring A large body of strikers gathered at the central telegraph station thursday and threatened a I 1 breach ol of peace but when they found a company of infantry in rooms adjoining the main offices they left without creating any disturbance the real elem element ent of danger lies in the threat of the general confederation of la her bor which is purely a revolutionary organization and the railroad unions to declare sympathetic strikes |