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Show REFUGEES STILL T POUR INTO PARIS Every Available Train, Canal Boats and All Other Transportation Trans-portation Means Used. RED CROSS RELIEF Thousands Met by Trucks Loaded With Food and Are Taken to Shelter. PARIS, June 4 Refugees from the Aisne and Marne districts continue to i pour into Paris, coming not only by I every available train, but even by canal boats and all other means of, transportation. The arrivals Monday included the entire population of the village of Limiy-sur-Ourcq which had spent three days packed into a boat with hastily gathered possessions All Desolate and Hungry All the refugees were desolate and hungry. Thousands were met "by Red Cross trucks loaded with food. As I soon as the sufferers had been fed they were taken to temporarv shelter at St Sulpice, where they were visited by the minister of the interior. The Red Cross also has estab- i lished roadside canteens where troops j on the way to the front can be refreshed re-freshed and refugees can be fed. A most varied array of transportable property is being carried by the ref- ! ugees. There are alarm clocks, umbrellas, um-brellas, mattresses, family relics, live rabbits and goats, cases of champagne, kegs of sugar, crates of chickens, folding fold-ing beds and overcoats. |