| Show FACES FOOD FAMINE STRIKE OF RAILROAD MEN IN FRANCE MAY CAUSE PARISIANS TO GO HUNGRY the river seine may be utilized by government to transport food Sup supplies plea to city from the sea coast towns and thus prevent suffering parts paris As it a result of 0 the strike ot of railway employed emp loyes no trains are running ing into or out of 0 the city and a food famine Is feared it Is estimated that there are sufficient supplies within the city to last eight days and wen men unless the strike has been settled or the trains are in operation by strike break ers the people ot of paris will face severe a ere privations the river seine which in january threatened to destroy paris now looms up tip in the role of savior the government has made arrangements to rush food foad supplies to paris from the sea requisitioning all boats to meet the crisis and ease the food market which Is already hard hit TUB the strike is denounced by premier B urland hand as an insurrection purely built upon criminal foundations the premier declared that tile the strike was called while negotiations were going on an for an adjustment of arlev ances ard lie he promised that the instigators of the strike would be prosecuted the employed emp loyes of the eastern and the paris lyons and railroads have not to any appreciable extent responded an fn the strike call and the governments ewason of mob has induced some of these employed emp loyes on the northern road to return to their posts nevertheless the northern and western railroads are prostrated the call to the colors has been ignored by the large majority and at mass meetings wednesday the strikers reiterated their determination not to respond to the call much aluch destruction cestr action has hag been een wrought on the western system em where the strikers and their all supporters ort have held up and derailed trains blocked trades tracks destroyed signals ripped up rails and cut telephone and telegraph wires the government has ordered the arrest of a score of strike leaders and instructions have been bean issued to the troops to use severe measures wherever occasion requires |
