CERCLE LITTERAIRE FRANCAIS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 228, 14 June 1918, Page 6

CERCLE LITTERAIRE FRANCAIS

'<. The weekly meeting of the Cercle Lit- | teraire Francais was held last night. I To commence the evening Captain BarI clay addressed the gathering at some |: length on the proposed collection of funds ;■ on behalf of the French Red Cro3s and f other societies formed with the object ;• of relieving the enormous distress in '. France caused by the war. The memI ners present accorded the president their ; - ivhole-hearted support, in his controversy ' with the Government, and formed themi selves into a committee to assist in every ;■ possible way. Following this, Captain ', Barclay read an interesting article, def scribing tho uttor fearlessness of the • populace of both London and Paris duri- 1 ing enemy aeroplane .raids. r Madame Plimmer, recently from ;' France, gave a vivid description of the ? pitiable scenes at the large railway staf tions in Paris on the arrival and depnrJ: ture-of the indomitablo French soldiers, r' Madame Plimmer also described the f ; struggling existence of tho soldiers' wives 'i with the Government allowance of one I franc (9}d.) per day. She commented '!': also on the total absence from the streets I of the male members of the community, f. excepting aged men, crippled soldiers, b and children. \ Several recitations' and musical items I were given. The evening closed with * the singing of "La Mareellaise."