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Show i BREAK IN DEADLOCK And No Prospect of Any Improvement in Strike Situation i Paris, March IS. There was not the slightest Indication late tonight of a break In the deadlock botwoen tho government and Its striking telegraphers teleg-raphers and postal employos, nor was thero any prospect of an improvement in tho situation The strike, however, will bo considered In the chamber of deputies tomorrow and a solution may then be furnished. Tho cabinet tonight passed a decree authorizing the dismissal of the strikers strik-ers from tbe state service, and reaffirmed reaf-firmed Its determination not to yield. Tho semi-official note giving the result re-sult of the meeting announced that many merchants have offered to lend to the government tholr employes. This Indicated the completeness of the tieup and the extremity to which tho government has been forced. The note does not mention the sensational sen-sational report that the government Intends In-tends to call the reservists to the keys, thus gathering in practically all the malo postal principals and forcing them to work as soldiers under penalty pen-alty of mutiny. The report is discredited. discred-ited. On the contrary, It is believed that Premier Clemenceau seeks only to save the principle for which he has contended, and that if tho chamber now Indorses the attitudo the premier will be ready Tor the resignation or M. Slroyan, under secretary of posts and telegraphs, and thus open the way for negotiations to end the strike. American mails have not been delivered. de-livered. The Havas agency, which receives re-ceives thousands of letters dally, did not find any at the postofflce today. With the failure of the carriers to de- j liver letters in Paris today, the chaos was complete. The entire public service is paralyzed and business, both public and private, Is in confusion. Tho situation In tho capital and the provinces prov-inces grows worse every hour. The undelivered letters number Into the millions, and not less than 300.000 telegrams tel-egrams were stacked up this forenoon awaiting distribution. Foreign Incoming Incom-ing malls remain unsorted and only a small proportion of the outgoing malls have been sent away. The few hundred military telegraphers teleg-raphers brought into Paris are practically prac-tically helpless, as they are not familiar famil-iar with the recently Installed Baudet instruments and foreign telegrams are being sent to the frontier for retransmission. retrans-mission. Even the sale of postage stamps haa been discontinued In the branch postofflces. The government has managed to keep several wires open with London and Berlin for conducting con-ducting important diplomatic negotiations. negotia-tions. A few days more of these conditions and Paris will be reduced almost to a state of siege as far as food Is concerned. con-cerned. The funds necessary for tho smooth running of the provincial trado are hung up in the poBtoffice and tho supply of eggs, milk, butter, meat and country produce threatens speedily to cease. Already merchants have been obliged to Bend agents to tho provinces prov-inces with ready cash to obtain sup-piles. sup-piles. The banks are withholding payment on checks In the absence of advices from their correspondents, and prices at the stores are soaring. A large body of strikers gathered at the central telegraph station today and threatened a breach of the peace, but when they found a company of infantry in-fantry in rooms adjoining the main offices, they left without creating any disturbance. The real clement of danger dan-ger lies in the threat of the general confederation of labor, which is purely a revolutionary organization, and the railroad unions to declare sympathetic strikes. Strangely enough, amid the intense anxiety, the masses celebrated Ml-'Careme today, the usual pleasure loving crowds assembling in the boulevards boule-vards to witness the grotesque procession proces-sion and throw confetti. The strikers gained many adherents today, the men employed on the pneumatic pneu-matic tubes Joining the movement and the association of 30,000 postal apprentices appren-tices lndoruing by their votes the strike principle The leaders already are claiming victory in spite of the bold front assumed as-sumed by Premier Clemenceau, who declares the government cannot yield and Intends to have recourse first to soldiers and then to replace the strikers strik-ers with new appointees. The belief Is becoming stronger, however, that the government will be compelled to make some advances looking to a compromise. In order to prove their patriotism, the strikers have detailed two expert operators to transmit the cipher dispatches dis-patches which the government Is exchanging ex-changing with the powers In connection connec-tion with the Balkan crisis. |