South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 128, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 8 May 1918 — Page 13

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Ckurckes, Picture leries. Palaces and witk fWdreds UNDER the menace of the Gennan seventy mile freak gun the Parisians are making tremendous preparations to protect their prkeleaa art treasure from injorj. 5 Pari would probably be clasied bj artist as the most splendid city in the world. Venice and Florence rival each other for the honor of being: the world's most beautiful city. It w a ad fact that all theee Tvcnderful place are exposed to the detractive rage of the II nr.. To protect Paris is a tremendous task. It is a vat metropolw m well a a city of art. Compared to it uch place a Florence and Venice are of trifling extent. The palace, art gallerie, monument, ttatues, fountain, churches, that stand in urgent need of protection. in Paris, are numbered t?y the thousand. Many of the town around tbin city, mburb a we should ßay, such as Versailles) and St. Germain, poi treasure but little leas valuable than those of the rnpital. Thi' Parisian monument have for some month lw-n in laiir from tho huge German airplanes of tho Gotha type, which have perpetrated three recent raids. Within a lew wk the danper has been trreatly inrrentKNl by the operations of the new German long ranj;e gun. which tires its .shells from the forest of Ht. Gobain, about Roventy-uve mllrs from Paris, into the city. Th shells are of slight explosive force an thlr damage is mainly connnxl to the xirrior of the buildings and monuments her strike. On Good Friday, however, one of the shells penetrated the roof of a very srucieut and famous church and killed a tinmlr of person among tho eongrogalion. Photographs received from Pari pfve a vry irtrcirting t! of the ftiTanjjemeTt4s that Kare. bem mad to protect the cityy monuDsnU. A strong woodrn fToldirrof timVts n. Tuuch ji four Inches thivk is Imilt tiennd the object to be protcctr There is pjatorm at too top cenrerinsr themonoment. Aund and above this woodn framework rc riird sajidVsgs abcut twofect in thick-

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of 'Tton ds of Tremcadovt Ssndbes Defense vf of Versailles, Ncsr 'S- . .. ß 4) 4 ri t d A, " ' V ' r; V 'i . AV - ' new. Thousands of them are ud In the caao of wjmc largp monuments. Handbags have proved very efficient in giving protection against fragments of shells and bombs, and it i understood that they will stop a frhell from the long-range gun. An iron framework will be uod Instead of the wooden scaffolding in sorno places. Enormous labor has been expended in protecting objects in and around the Place de la Concorde. This has been famou for over a crnturv as the finest opn space in any European city, The statues in the Place de la Concord are very beautiful and around it Ktand some of the finest public buildings in tho city. On one aido ia a row of splendid ancient pal Cewrifht,

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square, open place in the centre of tho city it prob Ably present one of the bo,t marks visible from the skies. Tho raider aiming a bomb in It direction would hAvo fl strong expectancy of damaging some object of beauty or im. portiince. In tho great Chapel of tho Invididr, on the left bank of the Rive- Srine, standi the tomb of Napoleon, the greatest soldier of all history. A German who couiu succeed in wrecking tho tomb of Napoleon and a church at tho some time would surely win eternal fame and honor in his own country. Not wishlnp to afford ac Hun aviator thU upremo distinction, the I rench Government ha taken especially great pains to protect Napoleon's tomb. Snndbag! by tho thousand nave bean placed against the outside of the church und around the tomb within. The great Colonne Vcndome. made entirely of camion captured by Napoleon in hU battles, ha .received adequate protection. This was a grat undertaking. The beautiful angels that adorn the doorways of Notre Dame Cathedral will be hidden for the rest of the war. Very extensive protective work has now been completed at the Cathedral. The Palace of the Louvre, the Are de Triomphe, the Church of the Madeleine, the Grand Optra House. th Musee de finny, the Palace of the Luxembourg, the buildings of nrvd.

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. : it's v i 1 Protecting Father Rhone. One of the SU'uss Personifying Prance'a Great Rivers, in the P!ace de la Concorde, Paris. j the Sorbonne, the I'oatairie de Medics, tho National Library, tho Palais tie Justin and the Raintc Chapelle are among the many noted Duildings and monuments that have been protected with especial carej. At Versailles Rtands the gre&tt palaco in the world, bnilt by Louis XIV. In modern times it has been a museum and art gallery for the pleasure of Frenchmen and visitors from all countries. The pictures and art treasures within its walls are of inestimable value. This palaco presents a great and splendid target Tho German aviator or artilleryman would certainly take peculiar joy in wrecking it. Countless thousands of sandbags havo therefore been usod in protecting it. How thoroughly this work has been done is indicAted by the fact that erven the fountains in tho vast grounds of Versailles have been d fended. Tho courage and cheerfulness of the Parisians under tie dangers of bombardment from gun and aeroplane have bwn splendid. This attitude of tho people has done raor than anything else to make tho German atro?ities ineffective Thes atrocities could hardly t expected to do much material damage eijev; to delicate works of art, but the Germnns hoped they wouU dlsorgani the industrial life of the city. The Parisian have- heroically proved this impo&sjhfo. Mort rrtnarkahle has been the courage of the Parisian workgirls who form so conspicuous a part vf the- population of the gay citv. In at her times they wero lurjrly tinployed in dro3tm?ikittir and the various luxury tranV for whteh ?Arh "was noteL Nor they aro doing many kinds of hard and at nous wxrk . In the abjouc of nwl of the ftblebodted youn men at tho front they carry cn an Imrrt ant part of th industrial lifo of M natton Th 'midlnettf,M a th V-A'V i I working girls an RomrUmtA called have not kmt thtir old enyv-ty and llghtheartetlnes undfr the dangtnt that threaten them. Thy jtvk find chatter when a shell or bomb fall near lhim ern when deth or ltJury may W eansrd by tho mUnlle. Their cheerfnlnec does ntiV prts vent them from elvln prompt eivi to the injured. A whistle blown by thn military authorities gives wamiuff of a coming attack of any kind Tho approach of th? long-dMatieft hell can be detected evrral second! in advanco by means of delicato sient'dlc instruments. A different kind of warning H givr-n for shell And airplane attacks. There is a regular system of drill in schools, workshops and factories, on the signal of attack. All persons are expected to take cover, although many are unwilling to do ao. If possible they are advised to take refuge 4u cellars. According to last reports the Airplane ettacks were much more dantrerou than th shellW. The shell is not aule to penetrat more than two floors of an ordinary house. Hence peruon. on the lowrr floor of a o!id building are quite safe. Some airplane bombs, a is well known, have force eiiodgh to demolish an entire building. The eonduct of the Parisians has proved that those who take life cheerfully can int its worst terrors with the greatest cvür-age.