BELGIUM AND THE FRENCH SUCCESSES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 20, 29 December 1915, Page 8

BELGIUM AND THE FRENCH SUCCESSES.

“Lee- Xouvelles,” a Belgium paper published in I\laestrieht, relates, how people of Liege received the news of the French successes in Champagne, and what effect it had on the temper of the .“fiery city.” The booming, of guns bad been audible for some days, but nothing certain was known as tb the turn the light had taken. , One Sunday, about 5 in the afternoqP|,; at a small tavern near the theatre, thqre appeared mysteriously a bulletin, giving briefly news of the French successes. Clients began to aiuive, in crowds, and to quickly disappear after reading the notice. A waiter standing in front of the “Cafe Venitien”'on the opposite side of jthe square, curious to know the meaning of . these manoeuvres, came across, and on; being told the news rushed back, •frantically waving bis napkin, and shouting at the top of his voice. “Victory, victory.” There was a. burst of delirious joy among the guestes filling the Cafe Venetion! The stamped, they shouted, they fell into each others’s arms. -Had the Allies reached the gates of Liege the excitement could not have been more intense! Mgxiy wept for joy, others sang, and all, according to the time-honored custom in, Liege’, “watered” the good news. The'revels lasted till the closing of the cafes. The wildest enthusiasm was also reigning in the poorer quarters, where the tidings had spread with incredible rapidity.