FRENCH NATION INSPIRED

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2267, 29 September 1914, Page 6

FRENCH NATION INSPIRED

SPLENDID SPIRIT; OF THE ; people . . , ;■, .- :: , /Paris, August 11. : ■ The spirit' with , winch the ■'. entire Ireiicn nation is throwing itself into the beyond all praise. An officer m the Remount Department told me yesterday, that horses seemed literally ta bp rising out of the ground for the* uso of the Army. Peasants who had carefully concealed from the authorities Hie fact thaV'tliey owned a.horse for rear of taxation were khday bringing them in of their own free will for tho sake : ;of their country.. ~'. ■■. This officer, a captain of Reserve, is well over ago, but ho has volunteered for< active service, while his wife ie going to the front ae a nurse. He has two children, both of them sons, and both of them are already on.their way to the frontier. "I said good-bye to them both yesterday,", he said., "Neither I nor my wife went to tho Gare do l'Est because we wanted ao heartbreaking farewells. Ptold them not to be rash or overdaririg/ but to do their duty, but, of course, they will pay no attention. The older one is an aviator, and I know, that .nothing in the world will prevent him, if he sees a Zeppelin,: nom ramming it and dying. I cannot: blame him; I sboiild have done the same fit his age. ,My- only prayer- is that they may both come back. For myself I do not care. I' am' quite old enough to die:, AH this was said in a quiet un- r dertone, and nover were words a more' perfect expression , of the. spirit inspiring tho whole nation.—"Morning Post."