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EX-MINISTER'S REVELATIONS OF DRAMA.
FOCH'S APPOINTMENT.
Paris. The "Petit Parlalen" publishes an extract from an arti- cle which M, Loucher has written In the "Illustration" describing the historic meeting at Doullens early Ja 1018 when Marshal Foch was mado Generalissimo of the Weat- ern Front,
On March 24, 1918, M. Louchour, than Minister of Munitions, visit ed Compiegne, where he had a can- versation with General Petain. He returned to Parls with the feeling that the situation was serious.. He spoke to Marshal Foch about it.
The following day M. Loucheur went to the Elysee with M. Clemen- ceau. At this meeting the ques- tion of the Government leaving Paris was discussed. M. Poincare refused to leave,
At nine o'clock at night a sug- gestion came from Lord Milner that, as single control was essen- tial, M. Clemenceau should assume this control, with Marshal Foch as Chief of the General Staff.
was
Marshal Foch did not believe the plan would work. Hià idea that a definite single command was necessary.
Do Or Die, **
The next day, March, 26, MM. Poincaro, Clemenceau, Laucheur, und Foch went to Doullens, While
General Foch will give me advice ETON & TRADIȚION.
I will follow it gladly."
The moment was decisive. M. Clemenceau drew Lord Milner aside, "You heard," he whisper- ed. What do you think?".
"I think," said Lord Milner, "that it is the only solution."
LAWN TENNIS COURTS BEING PUT DOWN.
BIG LEAD TO SCHOOLS.
The championships of Wimble- don may some day be won on the playing fields of Eton.
Clemenceau called General Petain. "Look here," he said,
.Eton College has given a lawn "Milner and I have agreed to ask General Foch to assure the co-tennis lead to the public schools ordination of our efforts with by its decision to lay down no those of Halg. Do you accept this fewer than eight hard courts, solution?"
which will probably be completed in about a month.
"M. le President," said Potain,
Lawn tennis has not been re- "I will accept anything that is necessary for the salvation of my garded with favour at most of the country. I have no other desire." public schools, the general view be- Thus was taken the historic de-ing that the team spirit is lacking, claion which culminated in the vic-and the majority of schools have only one or two grass courts on tory of the Allied armies.
which boys can play if they like.
A MOTHER IN BURMA
Tells How She Cured Her Little One Of Worms And Stomach
Sir Douglas Haig W&S talking
Trouble With · things over with Lord Plumer and General Byng, MM. Clemenceau BABY'S OWN TABLETS. and Loucheur, and Generals Des- The little lady whose portrait ticker and Weygand, who had ac- with her baby girl appears above companied Foch, went off wiis Pheo Shek, living in the Abo- Marshal Petain, who explained the position of the armies to them.
Foch went from one group to the other. He stopped for a moment in front of M. Clemenceau and cried :-
quarter, Rangoon. Like thousands of mothers in other parts of the. world, Phoe Shek. is an ardent bo- liver in Baby's Own Tablets...
"My baby was troubled with worms and cried a great deal," she The time has come when
we states,
"Having heard of Baby's must not lose another 50 centi- Own Tablets I bought a vial and say that these metres of ground. We must am pleased to eling to our positions or die. DoTablets quickly got rid of the you remember September, 1914, worms. Baby sleeps well and eats The enemy was stopped at the well now and is no longer troubled junction of two leaves of a door. Now he has flung them back on Haig and Petain. A new force must close them again.
Soon all the British and French representatives met.
"What remains of the Fifth Army 1 have placed under the orders of Petain," said Sir Douglas Haig.
"Alas," replied Petain, it is in plecos."
They decided that Amiens must be defended at all costs,
The Only Solution. "We must get a victory before they get to Amiens," said Foch. "We must be victorious here."
Then Sir Douglas Haig said, "If
But the increasing popularity of the game, as shown by the num- ber of schools represented at the junior championships, has become noticeable in the last year or two, and one of the reasons given for recent failures of Eton on the foot- ball field is that the boys, breaking with the old traditions, prefer the more social sport of lawn tennis.
Future Champions.
It has been persistently stated by the more progressive spirits in the lawn tennis world that the hard court is the court of the future (the victory of France in the Davis Cup has strengthened this. Desor- tion), and at least one well-known player has declared that England must look to the introduction of hard courts at the schools for fu- ture champions.
Eton's move is one of the most important algas of the times in the universal game.
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PRESS PROTEST AGAINST MUZZLING.
Warsaw,-An unusual strike la taking place at Vilna in the form of a three days' suspension of publication by four daily papers.
This is as a protest against the action of the city authorities, who have confiscated the issues of the journals. One of the chief wit- Infants and little children need nesses in the huge trial of White medicine of their own, which will Russian Communists at Vilna was promptly relieve their stomach and murdered. The newspapers at- bowel troubles, pleasantly, painless-tempted to publish accounts of the|
with her stomach,"
ly, and without doing even the crime, and were thereupon silenced
smallest or most delicate child in the manner stated. harm. Baby's own Tablets exactly On behalf of the proprietors it is full these requirements. They urged that the same news is being quickly correct infantile Indiges-published without hindrance in the tion, constipation, colic, vomiting, Press of all other Polish cities. check diarrhoea, allay teething Two of the "atriking" papers are pains, cool fever, relieve croup and supporters of the Government. colds, expel worms... |
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