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Show MANY U. S. DESERTERS STILL HIDE IN PARIS PARIS, July 27. Deserters from t ho J American army who came to France still number 1500 in the Paris district, according to a rrport made by the Paris police to aptnln J. A. Warden, who is 3upervi. inc. apprehension of i th'1 deserters in addition to Investigating Investigat-ing bills still beinp presented against the American expditiomry forces. As all deserters have the reputation with the French police of carryin'.' !suns and being bad men generally the poller simply notify the American au-. thorlties of their presence in some par-) tirular place, but do not attempt to 1 arrest them. I I n some weeks arrests have averaged aver-aged aa high as ten. The men not only (;irry guns, but were armr-d wiUl remarkable re-markable sets of personal papers, Including In-cluding forged army discharges and forged army orders. Often the men are Americans of foreign birth The lairs of the deserters are mostly most-ly In Montmartrc in secret underground under-ground passages which the Apache3 of Paris have used. Tho desertnrs virtually are penned up in Paris, not daring to stir outside the city If they leave Paris it means lavinc: an Income which often comes from the illicit sale of drugs. The number of deserters in Paris is stcndih fKTreair.g As soon as all alarms have died down the military po lice swoop down again on suspected places and usually the next day a con- t I voy starts for Coblenz where courts I martial sit almost continuously. I |