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Show GREAT DEMAND ON MRVICE mbassy in Paris Now Eight Times Its Former Strength Consulates Doubled. PARIS, Aug. 5. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.)--So great have been the war demands upon the diplomatic diplo-matic and consular services of the United Stales in France since America entered the conflict that tho cmbassv has had nearly to multiply eight times Us former strength in Paris and tho consulates all over France have doubled their forces. In addition there have been established in Paris, cither in the embassy or in close liaison with it branches of the War Trade board, the Hoover Food bureau and the Committee Com-mittee on Puh.Hc information. Tllr 1l'rT-rlrtrr r.,.. l IL. 1 ulIwub iuicu ui liic enioasby before the war began was about ten, exclusive of secretaries and attaches. Today it is olghty. About seventy clerks clerks have had to be brought over from Washington to take care of the growing influx of work. At the embassy in pre-war times there Avere two attaches naval and military. Today the naval attache has four aides nnd a clerical force of about I fifteen persons, while the mllilarv attache at-tache is surrounded by Ave aids and from fifteen to eighteen clerical employes. em-ployes. In addition a new attache's post has been created, that of scientific scien-tific attache, a post filled by Dr. Frederick Fred-erick Durand. Ho represents the board of inventions in France, and investigates investi-gates all inventions in France that may be used in prosecuting the war successfully. The establishment in Paris of a branch of the Bureau of Public Information Infor-mation ;s another event of receni re currence. Headed by James Kerney, the board employs a staff of American and Fronch-"newspaper men who are both gathering and disseminating information in-formation about events in France, and are making it daily clearer to the French public just what America if. doing in the war. This bureau works in liaison with, and not directly under, tho embassy. The War Trade board, Paris branch. 'sf..?.nothor new feature. Headed bv William McFaddcn '' with Clarence Stetson as assistant, the board here is incessantly active carrying out the di-t di-t rections of Vance-Thompson, head of the parent board in Washington and in general looking after American trade interests in Europe. Dr. E. Dana Durand, one-time chief of the census, is at tho head of tlci Hoover food bureau that has recently I been established here. This bureau follows ship movements, the food situation, sit-uation, gathers food statistics, and is responsible for the division of the rood supplied to the allies. By keeping an intensive watch on the various food decrees promulgated by tho French authorities it is nhlo in n,iv,v n.... ately concerning the apportionment of food and the amounts to be sent each i month. I A passport bureau or office after the British model has been installed at 6S , Rue Pierre Charronm and to it were transferred the staffs of the embassv and the consulate that had formerly done pass-port work. There are over twenty clerks here today, under the direction of Lee Meriweather, assistant assist-ant to Ambassador Sharp, Second Secretary Sec-retary Ben Thaw and v. Henry P. Elliott, The expansion of the diplomatic activities ac-tivities is reflected in the physical extension ex-tension of the embassv quarters |