THE RECAPTURE OF ROUEN.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 May 1918, Page 6

THE RECAPTURE OF ROUEN.

In Eouon history seems to have rolled backward (says a writer in the "Red Cross Magazine"), The city where the English burned Joan of Arc seems almost as British to-day as Birmingham cr Manchester. Acres of factory chimneys smoke busily beside the Seine; the river is full of British shippingcoal barges, transports, hospital ships, tramp steamers, and in the crowded city trcets are thousands of Tommies in khaki, Scotties in kilts or scandalous "shorts" of the same loud-colour-ed plaid as the kilt; Australians and New Zealanders, natty public schoolbred officers; Siikhs wearing khaki turbans, and scores of V.A.D/s and other rose-cheeked British women in khaki or blue serge, or the white muslin of the Eed Cross nurse. The Norman conquest has been reversed and the English have retaken Rouen. .It is an impressive and noble example of the complete unity and power of the Allies.