FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 118, 20 January 1915, Page 3

FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

EXPERIENCES OF CA.THOL.iC C L £ R G Y, 1 WIT:-.■'.")£...•. UECI- - ■ jVAi'LT .AND OK K'E.iNKDV. ; A representative o'fthe "Times" yes. '• terday had an interview with the \'f-vy ~ i '/levy Dean Regnault, S.l'vi.,'who lias re j turned from the Continent and Ameri|ca in company 'with the Very Rev. I | Dr. Kennedy, S.M. The Dean, with ■ ! the Rector of- St Patrick's Collate, and 1,1 the Very Rev. Dean iiri'ey, S.M. (of Wanganui). -were in'France ".n 'their :.. I way to -Belgium to attend tha fcTylen- . :nial General Chapter, of ike Mavis'} ."Order, at DiiTert '(near Lo'ngway) in "I Belgium, On the outbreak oi horfilities tile holding of the'Cbaptav at DifCert became an impcssibiliry.ii a"..i after some delay It took place at "Lyons. '/'..-,■ TUSy PARTY SEPARATED.• Dean Re.anauitv who had become svpT a raved- from his comrades, stated 'that 'he-bad great difficulty m getting' from .Paris to Lyons. The railway sfatinis . congested with people anxious to get -an far" away from the scene., of ■'action as' possible, ' the trains were j crowded, and the time-table completely'upset so that it took'three times as •long -as usual to make the journey. There "was- the greatest anxiety amongst the French peonle as io what ■j attitude England would take up",'.'arid i worm the good news came that Britain | was stepping ititc the breach there was I the utmost joy and enthusiasm. So far r&H the •mobilisation in France was ; concerned' it was carried out in trie | coolest manner possible. Once the j position, of Britain was understood all

I eteiteir.eiit' >v;is 'allayed. The g'athgoring' together 'of the French • forces : war; k great achievement accomplished I without a hitch and everything 'pro- ; ceo ;"(!■ like cioclcAvork, 'l ; After - conference at Lyons pome of | the delegates joined the French ranks, ■ . inctading the Provincial ••..'of Lyons. : Some- of them' went as hospital atten- | dauts and officers, and many as pri- • I vates. Of the lastmentiqnecT some j-'v.ers promoted on account of the in-j-f.ej'Fgcnee they 'displayed as soldiers' T'T-lie" Dean ; 'srai.e-1 lbu ' the military ; i spirit "natl. revived ' considerably ir ■ : !' ir, :vrico : on the appc'int'hie.iil r.f Ganehi" - : T;■■•*! 3 r'.Pd iho .'■:"''•' A rrdmoficn flv.'eu.v,]! . •pcliticn' wffii ': H'K LFAGIAN3. I j>rp::-ed (ho . Uz?n considerably.Be no- : Meed w.itli much pleasure also the ben-ficent .treatment ace'erded to BelI ■::>■_ ;■.■ in England.• As- to the issue of .1,1 he. war net the slightest-doubt w«p J felt in France or Kwdand. The utmost T confidence ; pr.ev/ti led and lb ere were ■' a . 0 boon very different,-however, had . nxt (he ;>lucky Belgian troops held oui | -Tq.well hi.tbe. first, instance In Amer- ■ lea .iher-e was a .• predominant feeling ■ in ,'A.vcnr of the Allies, notwithstanding | much misreperesentation from German