Second Edition. SPIRIT OF FRANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 64, 15 July 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. SPIRIT OF FRANCE.

BURIAL CEREMONY OF DE LISLE THE MARSEILLAISE RESOUNDS FROM THE VOSCES TO THE •■ ~ .... . NORTH SJEA. : . ~.,,... ' l United Press Association. (Received 1.50 pnu.) ■ .• Paris, July 14. Hundreds of thousands thronged - the streets. Twenty-five aeroplanes were, circling above as the coffin containing De Lisle' s remains passed. ; At a given signal all ,the troopsjj from phe Vosges to the North Sea,.! j forming ah impenetrable harrier to German invasion, sa-ng "La; Marseillaise" with effect. ; President Pbincare, speaking at Les luvalides, said: "We are the innocent victim's of a most bniul, savage, am), premeditated aggression, and since we have been compelled to draw our, swords, ,we have not the right to skeath them before we have'avenged oijr dead, or before the victory of the',Allies,permits us to guard effectively against a periodical recurrence of the provocations. ■ Da'not let our, enemies deceive themselves. It wai not in order to sign a short trtice before, the terrible war was ended, that the people of France have risen thrilled by La Marseillaise.