MARNE MEMORIAL.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19460, 6 November 1928, Page 11

MARNE MEMORIAL.

ANGLO-FRENCH VALOUR,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) PARIS, November 4. The Marne Memorial to the 3888 Old Coiitemptibles buried in unknown graves in 1914 was unveiled at Laferte-Sous-Jouarre by General Sir William Pulteney, who paid a tribute to AngloFrench valour and strategy in checking the German advance in probably the most critical period of the war, and thus ensuring the safety of Paris. He also paid a tribute to the historic engineering feat of the British 4th Division in constructing under intense fire a floating bridge enabling the pursuit of the enemy and relieving the pressure on the flank of the 6th French Army He stated: "There is no other place in the war where the mutual assistance of the Allies was of such paramount importance and success was so finely exemplified."—Australian Press Association, United Service.

where he will retain a seat, he wields considerable influence, though be is not regarded as a very eloquent speaker. In 1920 he brought forward a motion opposing Lord Birkenhead's Divorce Bill, which was lost by only one vote. The rejection by the House of Commons of the Revised Prayer Book came as a great, and some thought at the time, a crushing blow to the aged Primate. The sympathy of supporters and opponents of the measure went out to him as he left the House in tears when the work in which he had been painstakingly engaged for years was temporarily at least, rejected. But it is remarked by many in Englnnd that greatly as the rejection of the Book bulks at the present moment in the mind of Church people, it may well be thai; fifty years hence Dr. Davidson's real claim to greatness, and to the gratitude of future generations, will be recognised as based on his wonderful work in drawing into one the manifold threads of Church life throughout the whole of the Empire. For he has been more than Archbishop of Canterbury. He has been an archbishop, and a very great archbishop, for the whole English-speaking world.