This is much like telling a starving man in the Strand that figs are plentiful in Palestine, and only waiting to be picked.
The bombardment has diminished in intensity.

The Government has put the Prussian prisoners in the ambulances on the left bank of the Seine.

It appears to me that it would have been wiser to have moved the ambulances to the right bank.

By day few shells fall into the town beyond the immediate vicinity of the ramparts.

At night they are more plentiful, and seem to be aimed promiscuously.