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JOFFRE REVIEWS HIS TROOPS

THE NEW SPIRIT IN FRANCE

(Rec. April 5j 7.50 p.m.)

London, April 4. General Joffre on March 24 made an mspeotion of the French troops who had been through, the whole of the fighting, and permitted the Russian, > Belgian, Serbian, and Japanese officers present with the staff to accompany him. One "I was impressed with the charaoter which was written, upon the faces of the rank and file. It was impossible, after seeing these men, to-feel that war was an unmixed .evil tor a nation accepting it as the French have done, l'hsy snowed a pride of all£ l a certain chivalry which not all the modern war machinery and exi?m[ es c ® ll s * am P °uk '"here is an idea in many circles— 7 as .i un til recently, quito general— that.the British Army and the French has a number of army corps or divisions somewhere in the background ready to be thrown into the fight ivhen the great day of victory is at hand. This ™.should be dismissed. France is fighting with all her resources, and her reserves will enable them to keep fighting as hard and as long as the war continues. He laughs - best who laughs last! It will be found that as the Frenoh Army was the first to begin.the stop."— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Service.)

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 5

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JOFFRE REVIEWS HIS TROOPS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 5

JOFFRE REVIEWS HIS TROOPS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 5

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