TRICOLOUR DAY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2764, 6 May 1916, Page 5

TRICOLOUR DAY

.. FOR THlv 'FHKXCH lUCD CHOSS. ..Saijlr<l:iy., <7line J. 10, lias been fixed npon~'a«;.tlio : uirte;for- Tricolour Day in Wellington/; when': all branches of tlio .community .will' mak'o a special effort to collect As..much' money as possible for 1M Cross work with tlio gallant French'''.Army.' His Worship the Mayor 1 (Jlr. J. 1' Liike) intends to convene a meeting, of the various bodies .who have done .good work in Wellington from time to time in raising money for various patriotic purposes, fully aware that tlio. appeal is ono that will meet with a ready response. .As"to the "liebd for funds for Red Cross work'in Franco, one has only'to mention the name'of "Verdun" to convey to almost anyone the stupendous amount of suffering that must have been caused during the sixty days' battle—'■at once the longest and. most Appalling savage battle in tlio history of the -world. The undaunted soldiers of Franco, whose unquenchable spirit of patriotism and whoso splendid courage no one can question, filled up the ranks of the fallen as if on piiradp. . The Cercle Francais, ivinpli is taking a _ lively' interest in the coming day, will constitute itself a sub-committee to act uiuler the general- committee that will lie sot up at the meeting to be shortly convened by the. Mayor.