SEVEN WOODEN LEGS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 16

SEVEN WOODEN LEGS

SIGNIFICANT GIFT TO SENATOB

BOKAH.

Pleading anew that French war dead be reckoned with when the United States fixes tho amount of the French debt, a delegation of former soldiers has delivered to the American Embassy to be forwarded to Senator "William X Borah a casquo containing a United States modal, seven wooden legs, tho tin hat of a Verdun veteran, and a history of tho American War of Independence. This ironical gift was delivered on tho eve of Finance Minister Caillaux's departure for the United States to negotiate for a debt settlement, states the Paris correspondent of the Vancouver "Daily Province." The casquo was accompanied by an address seeking the good offices of Ambassador Herriek to interpret, as a ■friend of France, the feelings of French veterans.

"We beg you to transmit to Senator Borah in behalf of us French cxcombatants," the leader of the delegation said, "this history of the War of Independence, together with this medal awarded to one of our comrades for saving the life, of one of your (American) officers at the front. He has no further use for it. He. restores it to (Senator Borah, to whom wo owe so many dollars. AYe send him, also, this wooden leg, such as many thousands of those mutilated in the war wear. Ah, may Senator I'iorah realise that, tho day may come when .the price of the gold he wishes lo accumulate, will not be. worth the price of the blood we shed."