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Show CHAOS IN FRANCE RESULTDF STRIKE Business In Paris at a Standstill as Result of Strike of Telegraphers and Postal Clerks. Famine May Result If Settlement li Not Effected, as Banks Refuse Payment on Checks, and Supply Sup-ply of Foodstuffs May be Curtailed. - Paris. There Is not the slIghtoBt Indication of a break In tho deadlock between tho government and Its striking strik-ing telegraphers and postal employes, nor 1b there any prospect of an Improvement Im-provement In the situation. Tho strike, "however, will bo considered In tho ohambor of deputies, nnd a solution solu-tion may then bo furnished. Tho cabinet hns passed a decree authorizing tho dismissal of the strikers strik-ers from tho stato service, and ro-afllrmcd ro-afllrmcd Its determination not to ylold. With tho failure of tho carriers to deliver letters In Pnrls on Thursday, .ho chaos was complete. The entlro public service Is paralyzed, and business, busi-ness, both public nnd private, Is In confusion. Tho Bltuntion In the capital cap-ital and tho provinces grows worse every hour. Tho undelivered letters number Into tho millions, und not less thnn 300,000 tclogrnms were 8tnckcd up Thursday forenoon awaiting distribution. distri-bution. Foreign Incoming malls re-main re-main unsortcd nnd only n small proportion pro-portion of tho outgoing malls havo been sent away. A few dayB moro of Ihcso conditions condi-tions nnd Paris will bo reduced almost to n stato of slcgo as far as food is concerned. Tho funds necessary for tho smooth running of tho provincial trnde are hung up In tho postofllco and tho supply of eggs, milk, butter meat and country produce tl rontons Bpeedily to cease. Already merchants havo been obliged to send agents to the provinces to obtain supplies. Tho banks nro" withholding payment on checks In tho absence of ndvlcos from their correspondents nnd prices at tho stores aro soaring. A largo body of strikers gathered at tho Central telegraph station Thursday and threatened a breach of peace, but when they found a company com-pany of Infantry In rooms adjoining tho main offices, they lcrt without :rentlng any disturbance. Tho real element of dnngor lies In tho thrent of the General Confederation of Ln-hor, Ln-hor, which Is purely a revolutionary organization, nnd tho railroad unions to declare Bympathctlc strikes. |
