He brings no money to his wife and children, who consequently only just keep body and soul together by going to the national cantines, where they get soup, and to the Mairies, where they occasionally get an order for bread.
Almost all their clothes are in pawn, so how it is they do not positively die of cold I cannot understand.

As for fuel even the wealthy find it difficult to procure it.

The Government talks of cutting down all the trees and of giving up all the clothes in pawn; but, with its usual procrastination, it puts off both these measures from day to day.
This morning all the firewood was requisitioned.

At a meeting of the Mayors of Paris two days ago, it was stated that above 400,000 persons are in receipt of parish relief.
The troops outside Paris are gradually being brought back inside.

A trench has been dug almost continuously from Drancy to Aubervilliers, and an attempt has been made to approach Le Bourget by flying sap.