NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1921, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

IUUTONS’ FRENCH BRIDES. PARIS, April 20

A steady -flow of returning Englishmen continues to arrive iu North ern France with a view to settlement. Most of these ex-soldiers are returning to marry French girls to whom they became engaged during the war. With the savings of the two and a half years of peace ,aided by their French bride’s dot, they open small shops or cafes or accept agencies for British firms. Such towns as Amiens, Eta pies .and Bolougne are full of these Anglo-French families. At least half the cafes of Wimereux, near Boulogne, are occupied by former British soldiers. A number of ex-officers who have established themselves in Amiens and other towns that were behind the British lines organise motor tours to the Britsh battlefields. Such firms as Messrs Griffiths and Gregson, of Amiens are already in their second or third sea-

son. One of the most curious instances m the successful return of a British so 1 - dier to his war station is tho case of a former railway traffic officer at Modrne where he has settled down ns owner of the local, kimxmatograph theatro—an undertaking which has satisfied his best expectations of success. A former British private has marrie.l tho daughter of a French farmer near Pont do I’Arche (near Rouen), and now farms, the property, takes the produce to market, and drives hard bargains with other farmers in their local dialect. He has thoroughly settled down in his adopted country.

£75,000 PICTURE. NEW YORK, April 20

Sir Joseph Huvoen, the art dealer, confirmed last night reports from Berlin that the “Man with a Falcon,” Titian’s 0489-1576) famous portrait of Giorgio Cornaro, has boon bought by his firm from T)r Edward Simon, a German collector, for C 75.000. When the picture is shipped to New York shortly it will make its third journey across the Atlantic. Twenty years ago it was in the Metropolitan Museum. New York, on loan from Mr Seth Milliken. a New York connoisseur. On his death it was sold by auction and found its way to o small London shop, where Hr Simon bought it in 1908.