THAT "LITTLE ARMY."

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2312, 20 November 1914, Page 7

THAT "LITTLE ARMY."

•A FRENCH REPLY TO THE KAISER. 'A' "Petit Parisien" correspondent who passed a week with the British Army on the i evening of their* participation in active operations was struck with the remarkable doggedness of these troops, whose arms, equipment, and commissariat appeared to him absolutely perfect. _He was likewise struck with the, organisation of the various auxiliary and sanitary services. The writer was particularly surprised by the oxcellent spirits and devotion to duty of British troops' and the fraternal and paternal solicitude of tho officers for their men.

Writing-in the "Petit Journal" today, M. Stephen Pichon, ex-Foreign Minister, says the words of t'he German Emperor's order of the day to his troops, that their objective should be to "exterminate those treacherous English" and' to "walk over General French's contemptible little army," is the finest homage which the Emperor could pay Great Britain and her troops, as it proves both the anger felt by the instigator of the war towards our admirable ally and his chagrin at being unable to overcome her. What, he describes as "French's contemptible little army" are several hundred thousand men whose valour and fearlessness are the admiration of tho world, and who are placed under the command of one of the most illustrious military chiefs of our times. In whose name does the German Emperor attempt, without success, however, to insult these heroic upholders of justice to which they are sacrificing their lives? In the name of an army of housebreakers, hangmen, exe-. cutioners, and firebugs dishonoured for all time by their crimes. His insults have no effect; and he is like Bismarck,with the end of his life haunted by the nightmare of the coalitions which made him foreseethe last days of his Empire. He is specially furious with Great Britain because he feels in his shoulders tho claws of tho British lion. He vainly seeks to bite Great Britain. She holds him and will not let him go.