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THE WAR MUSEUM,
affairs in the Echo de Paris repre- sents the Qual'd'Orsay, the Gen- eral Staff and the Chanvinišis
FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY. generally, and hates the League of Nations and all international
Early in 1917 official sanction Lorganisations L'Œurre advo London ospital Extension of for the formation of an Imperial
Society genuine *
of Maintenance Fund, a £100,000" / "War Museum was given by the Nations to include all our late sweepstake has been stopped by | Cabinet. From that time onward the collection f trophies and enemies, and has for the last the police.
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in June, when the exhibition is to be opened by the King.
twelve months been moving more Over 200,000 61. tickets had and more to the Left. It opposed already been issued bearing the M. Clemenceau even when he words: "This ticket is a receipt was in power. These two papers for a donation of 64. for the West agree with M. Barthou's attack London Hospital." The first on England for different reasone prize was to have been 100 gui- and represent two different secneas, the second 30, and the third The preparation of this work has been one of no small dimen- tions of French public opinion. 23.
of attitude The anti-British
About a fortnight ago a matineesions, and it has called for L'Œure is significant. for. al-was held at the Shepherd's Bush enthusiasm and imagination, no though it is a "journal d'opinion Empire in aid of the Maintenance less than for a judicious selection of what has a real historical rather than a newspaper, it has a Fund. and the sweepstake was
Exhibits innumerable circulation of about 600,000 a day-run by a committee in conjunc- | value.
"STUNT" HERDER
tion with it.
hase been gathered during the "Towards the end of February last three years from every land Dur, stunt Press has some
the police took particulars con- where the war cast its trail, but responsibilty for our present unpopularity in France. It has cerning the proposed sweepstake," he who would chaoss between always been unfortunate in the said an official of the hospital to what is worthy of preservation choice of its French heroes. Somela Daily Chronicle representative.and what is not mus: seeds have a sense, as it were, of the human day its extravagant enlogies of fortnight later they called M. Delcasse and M. Poin are will again and told us to carry onsignjicance of things. Shortly After another fortnight had after the armistice, for instance, come home to roast, Its still more extravagant eulogies of M. elapsed they called again to make there were found discarded as Clemenceau are coming home further inquiries, repeating their lumber those memorable sign-
with the pasts: "Hell Fire Corner, already. The marble tablets advice to proceed testifying that M. Clemenceau scheme.
On the day of the draw-two bas deserved well of a patria" have not yet been placed in all the weeks later however, they called and intimated that mairies and schools, and the old pace more legend that he is an agent of we must stop it or be prosecuted.knew them as the direction posts "We tried to ge: the Commis England is already revived.
The mass of the people, recognissioner to let us finish the 'sweep,'
| ing atins: how great is M. Clemen-but without avail.
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grand memories clustered around these old posts as thickly as did the dirt and the grime. In such useless salvages they discovered what will assuredly become the -pracióna relax of posterity. So "Hell-Fire Corner" and many of those other legends have been Army. Some of these are empe saved, and they will be seen'ating and some tragic. For in- the frystal-Palaze during the stance, there is a cycle with a spromer, also will that rally-dynamo attachment for lighting ing trench sign of Verdun "Oo an officer's dug-out, and two of the worst defaulters had to sit on ne passe pa5." GUN THAT FIRED FIRST SHOT. the machine in shifts and pedal Here, then, is an evidence of for all they were worth in order that Tpare "human" interest that those within might have the which the compilers of the radiant glow whilst devising new Far less Museum have always had before plans of aggression. the m. and with which they are amusing is a specimen of the seeking to mirror the common enemy's "bear trap." Exploring human effort of the Empire. No Man's Land, a British soldier This purpose, in other words, is might stumble into its jagged to make it less an abstruse tech- and ugly spikes, concealed from nical display and a mere collec-eight by layers of grass, and
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The proposal to make certain changes in the wording of the marriage service is to be discuss- ed at the forthcoming Convoca- tion of Canterbury. Dr. Wace, Dean of Canterbury, who in spite of his 84 years, takes a keen in- terest in affairs of the day, is His introducing the motion.
tbe causes" for which matrimon proposal is to change the order of was ordained, placing the third first. the first second, and the second in the third place.
The order of the causes would according to his proposal, then read thus:
First, it was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort that the one ought to have of the ober.
It seems rather hard lines, of France, is beginning to accuse seeing that it was for such a good bim of baring prolonged the war cause, especially in view of the in the interest of England; the fact that the draw in connection Chauvinists-M. Barthou's speech with the Police Union was appar- was an example-arcuse him offently allowed to proceed,
to "We are returning money to haring sacrificed French thaishinteress in making pesce, all ticketholders who apply, and All alike seem to forget that lesa) to-day repaid about dismi than three months ago they were acclaiming M. Clemenceau as of its national expenditure out of the saviour of France and that taxation must expect to be in i The grievance about whatever mischief he may have bad way. doce. they have only themselves roal is, on the contrary, a real one. It is abominable that we The Chauvinists have always should exploit the necessities of disliked England because they the French people, to whom we distike all foreigners. They de-ought to sell our coal at the same sire friendship with any country price as to the home consumer.
Apart from these two specific only to use it against another, and opposed the Entente Cordiale grievances, one real and the other, there is the old until they saw that it could be fictitious, made an instrument of war. They suspicion of British, bypocrisy B** want 2 Franco-British not, perhaps, altogether without alliance, which would place the justification. British Army and Nasy at their member Mr. Llord George's for securing the solema oath that, "as the Lord disposal French begemony of Europe, lireth." we did not want an inch and they resent our lack of of German colonial territory, and enthusiasm for that seductive they wonder whether Mr. Lloyd adventure. They want to George still believes that the
of the place where I fought not this stage to attempt any detailed occupy the Bobr Valley. and Lord liveth. They remember the they resent the oppositios of the repeated declarations of all our far from Ypres." Every British enumeration of the 10,000 exhibits gun will, as far as possible, have that are to be housed for four to solatesmen that England went into Government British
attached to it a concise record of years beneath the ample glass dangerous a step, which would be the war for purely disinterested only the prelude to further reasons, and they wonder what the part it played. In some roofs of the Crystal Palace. cases the part was conspicuous. Something has first, bad to be aggression. The pretext of this we are doing in Egypt, in Meso- policy is the present situation in potamis, in Persia. They observe Thos there will be seen the gun done towards the rehabilitation Germany, but it is not the reason. that our zeal for "self-determin- that fired the First British shot in of the building, after its duties se On March 27 M. Giraud revealed ation" does not extend to Ireland, the war-from the decks of a training and demobilisation a big
The Rev. Hugh Chapman, vicar in the Echo de Paris the fact to India, to Egypt. They have H.M.S. Lancs at the mine-layer headquarters, and now
the Koenig Louise. Tha E Battery army of workmen are engaged in that M. Milleraud proposed the the impression that even
gun that opened the military bringing together a collection, of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, told a Daily News representative that occupation of the Ruhr Valley by Labour Party protests the Allies during bis last visit to vigorously against French Chau- hostilities will also be seen, and unique in its completeness and.
he would like to go even further London: that is to say, before the vinism than against British Im with it will be a weapan of the diversity, as well as inspiring, as coup d'ela: in Germany. M.perialism. They notice that the famous L. Battery, fought to the revelation of that sum total of than Dr. Wace. "Many of the last by the crew, who won three national effort of which it is, as clergy to-day," he said, "make a Millerand remains what he was growing demand in this country
The practice of omitting the causes, were, the legacy. V.C.A. Then there is another it during his terms of office, as for the revision of the Peace
the Museum, to which all theGovern-which stand first and second in Minister of War-the mouthpiec-Treaty is too much restricted to bistorical piece. This is
that of the General Staff and the per-matters
anti-aircraft pom-pom, mounted ment departments and war-lime order in the Prayer Book,reading chiefly concern
at Gresham College, which fired organisations have readily offer only that which points out that manent officials. These people France.
the firet shot ever directed what treasures they have, marriage was ordained for mutual want a new war.
THE ONE HOPE.
much to the early help and comfort. We can meet these suspicions ed at a foreign foe from London owes
The wording of the other since the days of the Romans, enthusiasm of Sir Alfred Mond, only by proving our good faith. These are not, however, the The way to prove it is to propose and the occasion of the incident and not less to the practical causes is very primitive belong reasons of anti-British feeling in the formation of a germine was the Zeppelin raid in Septem-guidance of Sir Martin Conway. ing, as it does, to su earlier the mass of the people, among Society of All Nations and an
It will enshrine the emblems of a period of society, and many peo whom Chauvinism and millarism all-round revision of the Peace.
THE CYCLE DYNAMO. great story, and it will be no less ple find it distasteful I should aro now unpopular. Two im-
Sixty guns will be exhibited ir surely a pageant merely because, like to see the second and third portant factors in producing that Treaty involving the abandon- feeling are the rate of exchangement of our own Imperialist all-the largest weigh fourteen in contrast with the general causes of Dr. Wace's arrange- France more than any tons and it will be realised how acceptation of the term. It may ment made optional, so that the and the price that France bas to other country needs a genuine immense is the preliminary task be somewhat sombre in setting. clergyman conducting the mar pay for coal imported from Eng-international organisation and of preparing the surface of the Looking at the lifebuoys of the riage service might use his dis land. The suspicion that we are universal national disarmament, floor and getting these monsters Lusitania, the wheel and bin cretion in regard to their omission deliberately depreciating.
for her only hope of recovery is into position. The Navy and the nacle of H.M.S. Arethus, the or retention." Ons toen BUSINESS CARDS of Time detring value of the franc is, of course in relief from the burden of Air Force have also contributed shattered funnel of
absurd and unreasonable. The armaments. The French people substantial exhibits, and these Vindictive, the portion of the declared herself emphatically in that bestrowed the "I should like to see the omission symptom of the collapse of can be convinced of that much will be arranged along the long Zeebrugge Mole, the formidable favour of the proposed ebang French national credity partly, more easily than many think. central hail, the gallerize being wines the inevitable consequence of the To that end the Lefts of the two devoted to such diverse interests Dardenelles looking at these is of the cause describing maTTiK long war, partly the result of the countries, all the friends of a war paintings and trench-in-torecall to mind one chapter as a remedy: Mama: «giul J Insane Snancial policy of succes permanent peace, whether prements, realistic scenic models ofter another in a great epio, and added.. Socialist or not, must take and profective devices, and curiosit is well that the porrow and the Middle sive French Governmanian A
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