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CAPTAIN Claude de
Liste of the French
army was a victim of
the song he wrote.
French Captain was victim of the song he wrote
His song, "The Marseillaise," rule by the kings, they sang the (pronounced -mar-sayez) is song:
probably the inost famous To arms! to arms, ye brave! national anthem ever written.
The avenging sword
unsheathe;
in March on! march on! all
hearts resolved
Captain de Lisle (pronounced de-leel) composed the song 1792 to boost recruiting in the French army, then fighting the Germans at the Rhine River.
When the young men of the French towns and cities heard the troops singing The Mar- seillaise they flocked by the thousands to fight the war. A German officer later sand that the song mowed down 50,000 German soldiers.
The song was first called "Battle song of the Soldiers of the Rhine." Then came the French Revolution.
Info Paris marched the re- volutionaries from the southern France city of Mar- seille singing De Lisle's battle song. From then on it was known as The Marseillaise— the song of the mén from Marseille, ⠀
On victory or death.
After the king was beheaded and the reign of terror gripped France, Captain de Lisle criti- cised the revolution. For this he was put into prisen for two years, and just missed being put to death.
In this way he found him- self the victim of the revo- lution which his song helped to success.
Since the days of the Revolu- tion, The Marseillaise, their national anthem, has inspired the French with its words of freedom and patriotism. The song was banned by the Ger- mans during the World War II occupation of France.
Then when the Nazis were driven from the country the French were able to welcome As the French stormed the once again the return of their Bastille Prison, the sign of their beloved Marseillaise.
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papers. The news-
paper is an important need to every man's daily life.
Many people are needed in Hongkong sends to other parts order to produce a newspaper. of the globe every important The most important people event so that people from far are perhaps the reporters who and wide
may know what is ko everywhere in search of happening in the place we live news. They have to attend in.
and meetings, court sessions even fuperals.
But perhaps the most pleasant part of a reporter's life is meet ing people. They meet important as well as unimportant people practically every day. Then, the stories have to be checked and corrected by the sub-editor who prepares everything for printing.
Newspapers are important not only because they make pleasant reading material, but also be- cause they form part of our education.
We benefit
We benefit from reading the papers because there are many things that wẹ may not learn.
books which we
The life of a reporte: is not from school easy. They have to brave find in our daily newspapers.
dangers, like riots or fire or floods because they have to be We should give our thanks to present on the scene before they at newspaper reporters and can write anything.
editors who make our daily and If there is a fire in the middle newspapers a joy to all of the night, they will have to without any one of them we be reading any of rush to the scene in order to would not write a good story for the next the interesting news articles. morning's papes.
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No sleep
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Yet, when we take up the papers the next morning we for- get about the poor reporter who missed his sleep in order write us a long, ead story of a big fire, and who had to hand in his article early in the morn- ing so that we could read it later.
News is gathered from all parts of the world in order to make up the many pages of our newspapers.
Local news does
not cover so many pages, and besides, everybody is interested in the world outside.
Our local reporters al'e unable to go. abroad to gather news, 90 the news agencies all over the world send to Hongkong stories. and photographs of what has been happening in each and
each every country and, in turn,
The words of the French national anthem, The Marseillai se, rang through the air as the revolutionaries stormed the Paris fortress. Top picture shows Frenchmen singing the anthem near Saint-Malo as the French flag is raised as Germans were driven our in World War II.
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