MARSHAL FOCH'S PESSIMISM.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 2 August 1920, Page 7

MARSHAL FOCH'S PESSIMISM.

Marshal Foch, speaking at the Ecole Polytoehnique, said the second part of rue peace programme was taken up by the necessity of making all preparations against a fresh war. Germany's neighbours, he declared, whether they wished it or not, would be forced to keep up armies and maintain strong frontiers, because, quite apart from the generous' intentions of civilised humanity there were historic realities in racial pride just as there were geographcal realities. "How can we hope." Marshal Foch continued, "to master the nation which, after its conquest by the Great Xapo'eon, was able to bring about the complete overthrow of the colossal Napoleonic Empire, and by superlative ..mi'.itarism and method succeeded in .greatly extending its authority in the .East, in the Russian marshes, and beyond the-Rhine, making war its national industry and might its right?" CWJRPENTIER'S CIRCUS SALARY.

George? Carp&atier, the European! heavy-weight boxing champion, went to A;:;erica ostensibly i'. r his honeymoon; but apparently ho was given no rest on the "other side." bu: was promptly engaged as a circus attraction. His salary, two thousand dol- !;«:■; (normally £400) a day. He had to appear in two boxing exhibitions drily during a tour of the country, lasting 70 days. Seventy days a! two thousand dollars a day. 140.000 dollars (nominally .-£28,000).