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Show BISHOP LEAVES RUINS OF VERDUN Departs Prom City on Footboard Foot-board of Locomotive Makes Rest of Way to Safety on Foot. BOMBARDMENT INTENSE Germans Shelling Verdun With Fury But Will Never Be Able to Take the Town. Paris, April 10, 11:45 a. m. Mon-signor Mon-signor GiniBty, bishop of Verdun, is the latest arrival in Paris from the shell-swept city, whose cathedral and bishop's palace are now in tho center of smoking ruins, the bishop departing depar-ting from the city ou the footboard of a locomotive, the only means of conveyance available for a civilian. He came to Paris to see those of his parishioners who have taken refuge here. Regarding conditions at Verdun In the last few days of his stay there he said: "During an Interval In the days of Intense bombardment I went back to the cathedral and bishop's palace to encourage the Inhabitants, although there was nothing but squalor la Verdun. I accompanied to the railroad rail-road station the last convoy of citizens citi-zens to leave and then returned to tho palace. But I could not remain dored every one out. Leaves on Engine. "I set forth Saturday evening. There were no more trains for civilians, civil-ians, no more horses, automobiles or other conveyances. At the railway station I found a locomotive which was just about to leave for water. I jumped on the footboard and the engineer en-gineer consented to take me as far as tho locomotive was going. I made the rest of tho way on foot to a hospital hos-pital beyond the front. "The Germans are assailing Verdun with fury, but while their shells may demolish houses, they will never get the town." Tho bishop has established temporary tempo-rary headquarters at Bar-le-Duc, 30 miles south of Verdun, to care for the homeless persons who havo been compelled to leave Verdun. |
