HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 21098, 10 May 1932, Page 10

HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND

CLERGYMAN'S EXPERIENCE IN FRANCE BENDIGO, April 29. In an address in the Forest' Street Methodist School Hall, the Rev. T. C. llentoul, superintendent of the Methodist Home Mission Society, referred to a recent, world tour undertaken by Mrs Rentoul and himself. He said when they crossed to France they experienced a marked change from the hospitality and friendliness of the English.. Immediately they became aware of the hostility and antagonism. With his wife he entered a hotel at Albert, and was greeted with the customary sniggering and laughter. Demanding a reason from the proprietor, he was told, “Great Britain robbed France of the fruits of victory.” They journeyed 1,000 miles in France, and were everywhere met with incivility and discourtesy, so much so that he felt in many places he could have “ started another war.” They entered Germany on August 4, the anniversary of the day Great Britain declared war on that country. He felt that with such hostility in France they must surely _ come to grief in Germany, but their experiences were quite the contrary. _ They ,were treated with the utmost kindness.