General Victor Constant Michel, Military Governor of Paris until August 27, 1914 The Statue of Strasbourg, after the capture of Altkirch in Alsace by French troops Americans in Paris besieging the American Express Company's office for funds for their daily bread French Negro troops from Africa entraining in Paris Flag of the 132nd German Infantry Regiment, captured at Saint-Blaise by the 1st Battalion of Chasseurs a Pied Robert Woods Bliss, First Secretary of the United States Embassy in Paris, September, 1914 A party of American volunteers crossing the Place de l'Opera in Paris on their way to enlist General Joseph Simon Gallieni, appointed Military Governor and Commander of the Army of Paris, August 26, 1914 Etienne Alexandre Millerand, Minister of War, August 27, 1914 Parisians watching the German air craft that drop bombs on the city Eiffel Tower's searchlight to reveal bomb-throwing air craft and air scouts of the Germans Wounded French soldiers returning to Paris with trophies from the battlefields 29th Infantry Reserves, Army of the Defence of Paris General Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France M. Emile Laurent, appointed Prefect of Police of Paris, September 3, 1914 Workmen erecting a barricade in Paris "Sauf-Conduit" issued by the Prefecture of Police to persons wishing to travel One of the wards in the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly PARIS WAR DAYS _Saturday, August 1, 1914_ This war comes like the traditional "Bolt from the Blue!" I had made arrangements to retire from active journalism and relinquish the duties of Paris correspondent of the _New York Tribune_, which I had fulfilled for sixteen consecutive years. In reply to a request from Mr. Ogden Reid, I had expressed willingness to remain at my post in Paris until the early autumn, inasmuch as "a quiet summer was expected." Spring was a busy time for newspaper men. There had been the sensational assassination of Gaston Calmette, editor of the _Figaro_, by Mme. Caillaux, wife of the cabinet minister. Then there was the "caving-in" of the streets of Paris, owing to the effect of storms on the thin surface left by the underground tunnelling for the electric tramways, and for the new metropolitan "tubes." The big prize fight between Jack Johnson and Frank Moran for the heavy-weight championship of the world followed. Next came the trial of Mme. Caillaux and her acquittal. Then followed the newspaper campaign of the brothers, MM. Paul and Guy de Cassagnac, against German newspaper correspondents in Paris. The Cassagnacs demanded that certain German correspondents should quit French territory within twenty-four hours. As several German correspondents were members of the "Association of the Foreign Press," of which I happen to be president, I was able to smooth matters over a little. Although my personal sympathies were strongly with the Cassagnacs, who are editors of _L'Autorite_, especially in their