MR. COLEMAN'S LECTURES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2738, 5 April 1916, Page 6

MR. COLEMAN'S LECTURES

ANOTHER BIG AUDIENCE.

.The Municipal Concert Chamber was' filled again last evening—and many were turned away-when Mr.. Frederic -Coleman repeated, the war lecture which he nrst delivered here last. Saturday evening. Mr. Coleman claims to have had exceptional' opportunities for viewing phases of thei. fray at close quarters, and he telle His story, most entertainingly. Dressed out in his language the retreat from Mons becomes a splendid pageant.. "There was every ingredient of discouragement, but with all that the thing that s '°°d, out was, the.splendid cheerfulness oL the troops-the troops of whom an old general said: "You may be able to kill these men, but you can't beat them." Ihe lecture bristles with charming stories of the gallantry of the British • and French troops, and full credit is given the Gerg 7 n "_,f l i' a T fi ghting machine. -'"The Black YVately!. I can imagine nothing-more awew^ lr il llg n.f 1 ? a , n .by, the Black Watch. Think of a big Jock, who hasn't had a shave for days. See them comingat you ooking like nothing but all-knees, and a lot. of bayonet-oh,! such a lot of bayonet-out in front. You don't feel like waiting for them, and there's mighty few do. wait. Yery few regiments went into the war with the glamour round them the Black Watch had, and there's none lived up to it better." Again:' "No battalion in all this war has a finer Tecord than Miat of ine Munsters in the retreat from Mons. Ordered to retire. Messenger never reached them with the order. Xhey were still there next morning. Grey masses of the Germans coming on in hordes. . The Mutisters stayed on. At length they were fighting on four fronts, talcing a terrible toll of tho enemy. They ' fought on till every man was down, and the only word we ever heard of that fiirht was through wounded who were .taken back into_ German hospitals." Mr, Coleman carries his auditors throng 1 !), a host of interesting experiences. He assures them of how good a soldier the Frenchman is, what his 6eventy-lives can do, and how the French Army cannot be beaten by the Germans. Ee tells of the wonderful work the medical and nursing staffs have done. To all this he adds a budget of war pictures. In fact, he brings his audience very close to the battle : front, and he reminds his hearers before they leave that they can win this war by putting their shoulders to the wheel, and he suggests that for every wounded man of ours who comes back here we shall send ten new men to the front.