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Show If I HOW APACHES OF PARIS I) Ml DEFENDED NATION REVEALED 2 ill In the archives of the military and ji police officials of Paris is a historic wj romance of the underworld. It tells in j jh cold, formal style the details of how I S. the criminaal8 who for years had in- I fested the hidden, underground places of the French capital did their part when the German invaders drew near 'he city. The official reports testify that the Vpaches of Paris reformed as if by magic, and that the city was purified by the impending peril of attack. I Men who had lived by burglary, , highway robbery and all forms of 'crinje found that a bigger purpose existed ex-isted in life for them. Hardened hearts were remoulded by the call of 'patriotism. x ' It was then that the gendarmes of ' Paris discovered strange things. They J found in the ranks of soldiers faces which were familiar counterparts of 'portraits in the Bertillon Bureau, or) rogue's gallery. They discovered in- stances of criminals who had been1 long sought, dying on the battlefield. ! oo |