INDISCRIMINATE ENTHUSIASM.
FIvANGK RIN(;s WITH Til K NLWS. WHOLK CITY TTRN'S OFT. I'ARIS, April 21. France is ringing with the news that the Russians have-landed. There is indescribable enthusiasm at Marseilles, surpassing the arrival of the Indians. The streets were beflagged. and the whole population turned out to cheer the troops as they marched from the 'docks to special camps. There have been rumours in France sometimes that storms have delayed the arrival, and the presence of Russians side by side with the French. The arrival of the Russians will have an enormous moral effect, upon the civil population and the army. The Russian equipment is complete, including a special kitchen copper, cooking thick vegetable soup, a stapfe diet. The French authorities printed a special Russian newspaper, which was distributed gratuitously among the troops, and from which they leariit of the capture of Trebizoml.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 84, 28 April 1916, Page 6
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144INDISCRIMINATE ENTHUSIASM. Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 84, 28 April 1916, Page 6
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