[29] The following is a document which completely justifies these
apprehensions:—
“30th March—The Commune of Paris—Orders from the Central Committee
to the officer in command, of the battalion on guard at the station
of Ouest-Ceinture.
“To stop all trains proceeding in the direction of Paris at the
Ouest-Ceinture station.
“To place an energetic man night and day at this post. This man is
to mount guard with a beam, which he is to throw across the rails
at the arrival of each train, so as to cause it to run off the
rails, if the engine-driver refuses to stop.
“HENRI, Chief of a Legion.”
[30] Vexatious measures accumulated:
The pacific M. Glais-Bizoin was arrested in a tobacconist’s shop, where
he was, doubtless, lighting a reactionary cigar. He fancied at first
that there had been a mistake, but he was taken before the Committee,
which caused him, however, to be liberated.
M. Maris Proth, a writer in _Charivari_, which is certainly not a
royalist journal, was arrested on the following day, and detained for a
longer time.
On the same day a search was made at the house of the publisher
Lacroix.]
[Illustration: Gambon.]