TRICOLOR DAY.
BRITISH ENTHUSIASM. STRIKING SCENES. STIRRING CELEBRATIONS IN* FRANCE. Received July 15, 5.5 p m By C*ble—Press Association— copyright, TI • London, .Till,. 14, Frl e ttarn V ° f B, ' itai "' s airootioii for " s de.non.trated everywhere in streets, men, women and tliiUlr..u wearing miniature tricolors. Mr. and Mrs. Asquith and ninnv trngmshed people attended a Requiem .at?. 0 !'": ? VliS "* trikin K s «ue '» the .-real cathedral as thi* massed iniuU m h i Jouat'iiold Brigade Men from the Irish Guards, with fixed bayonets, stood with bowed heads euardin & a catafalque fan™ 1 f l l ' ( rcl,cl ' ''cpreienu,,alien heroes After the "Dead Mur,i* it,:?"«'«• >— Received July l.i, pm , ti,. i 1 , '' nris > Jll,v 14i he boulevards were thronged ;ind the monuments decorated with Dowers. Rritislil, French, Canadian, Indian and Aus.f . troo P ß P ar ad«l at the Invalided, Ua vanous regimental bands ~laving a medley of martial musie. Belgian trim.pets sounded together with the ba"< hind's a " d " ,elodiou< Russi *» »>iUtai°y I „f resi 'l Poiiicare reviewed the troops . c «» Petit Palais. There were s3 aJ. stirring scenes as the President handed certiheates of national appreciation to the relatives of 500 of the fallen, whose names were called out. and during momentary silence an oflicer solemnly announced that they had died for their country. The procession marched along the Champs Klvsees, the Rue Rovalt>, and the brand Boulevard, ami dispersed at the I lace de la Republicjue, The britUh warmly cheered and the wmi.m, a.*,,' (lower* to the Anzac*.
ENTHUSIASM AT AT HEN'S; Received July 10, ;>,:io p.m. At hem, .Inly 1;», Ten thousand Greeks celebrated Jui» Thev demonstrated at the French huibasay. The Legation Secrcinry read •Sir Douglas Haig's bulletin and' great cheering ensued. FRENCH PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY, •President Poincare, in \ stirring afldress to the troops, said: '-You know how o mterminable Tee!;*, under cioncentrated artillery and heedless of ruiu. our battalions defended Verdun. Their endurance and stoicism facilitated «Uewhere the combined operations of the Allies, it was a spectacle whose and grandeur surpasses anything humanity has hitherto known. Verdun it now little more than a heap of ruins, but over the blackened stones of your housss the German army sees ' from a/ar France's victory. Our enemies do not re-, tain illusions regarding the possibility of having the Allies at iheir mejvy mid drawing from their weariness a pigace which will enable militarism to ina3k preparations for a fresh aggression. We would not weaken were we fighting fo;' honor alone; but we are :tUo lighting for tlie life and conscience of European nations, and, facing the poignant problem of a free democracy, we will not. submit to an existence which would simply permit them and us to vegetuuin the stilling, unhealthy shadow of tut German Empire.'' GENERAL HAJG'S MESSAGE. General Sir Douglas Ilaig rent a message to President Poincare stating t.iat in participating Willi tlu. valiant J<mail in the struggle, which has now become desperate, the British army expresses admiration of the results obtained by the French and unfaltering confident-; in the prompt realisation of their common aims. President Poincare replied; "Convey to the gallant British my keen admiration of their splendid successes so brilliantly developed, which has an echoed reply from every French heart. Your troops in Paris to-day received thrilling evidence of the public feeling."
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1916, Page 4
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