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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1915, Page 2

A FRENCH TRIBUTE. WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE. A splendid tribute to Great Britain recently appeared in the. Petit Parisien from the pen of M. Henri Cahrdon, Councillor of State. Ho writes: "In declaring war upon Germany on August 4, 1014. England put all' the chances on our side. She was not bound to come in; a victorious Germany might very probably have been a menace to England, but, after all, we do not know what a price. Germany was prepared to pay for England's neutrality; and if England had remained outside the struggle, becoming richer and more prosperous than ever, might she not have waited for the mere exhaustion of the belligerents as sullicient guarantee for the future? "England might have calculated it out thus; she did not do so,- And so long as there are Englishmen and frenchmen in the world, they will never meet again without their hearts heating in unison ot the memory of that evening of August 4, 1!)14, when the Knglish resolved to win or die with the French, Thus there came to be realised the prophecy of Mirabeau, who recommended to Talleyrand on his death-bed an alliance of France and England as the foundation of the world's libcrtv. "On August, I. 1014. Herr von Both-mann-Hollwey was so curried away by his furious despair as to exclaim 'that England by intervening was killing Germany: it was true. That evening England smote the beast of prey on the head. Germany could henceforth carry her crime to success only by a stroke of fortune. Eternal Justice has not permitted so monstrous a success that would have destroyed for centuries the ideal of humanity." FLUENZ