"J'. T. K." has made an excellent suggestion to several
of our -contemporaries that some provision should be made by those who -commiserate the sufferings of the victims of this terrible war for providing the immense population of Paris, —whenever it falls, or the siege is raised, for in either case alike the famine is likely to be serious,—with a sufficiency of provisions. Count Bismarck baying officially warned the world of the danger that Paris even -after its reduction may be starved, from the impossibility of getting together food for such a multitude at a short notice, it may be pre- sumed that the Germans, no less than the French, will be anxious to avert such a calamity, and that the neutrals, in providing against it, will be doing a strictly neutral work. "Within one week from any final catastrophe," says J. T. K., "Paris might revictual herself." We doubt it, unless the German Army were at once to march off in some other direction, for all the railways seem exclu- sively occupied in feeding that army, and this was said to be one of the great difficulties in the recent negotiation. J. T. K.'s sugges- tion that London should either raise a fund, or devote a part of the 'Sick and Wounded Fund, or both, to the purpose of collecting at a *spot as near as possible to the investing force a great store of food for the besieged city, is worthy of all praise. Biscuits and preserved meats would be the best form the food could take, as taking up so little space. Might not a certain amount of food be eventually taken into Paris by a flotilla of barges on the Seine ?
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