SHOOK FOR PRO-GERMANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2879, 25 February 1916, Page 3

SHOOK FOR PRO-GERMANS.

'MARSEILLAISE ,, INSTEAD OF " KAISER MARCH. " Paria. January 0. The Eclaireur <le Nice narrates the following curious incident wbX'h took place on December 4 at San Fran Cisco, on the closing day of the Exhibition there:—The Exhibition Orchestra was about Io 'givo its last performance, and atthe head of the Jist of pieces figured the "Kaiser March" ol Wagner. The conductor of tho orchestra-, M. Georges, one of our compatriots and well-known in the concerts of tho Tuilcrics, made a grimace, but, a slave to his duties and desirous of avoiding any painful incident, be oJfered no objection. The conductor's baton was raised. and tho Germauophiles present in the audience uttorcd jin imperious "Silence." The brass instruments crashed out suddenly, but not the "Kaiser March"; it was the "Maiseillsii.se" that thundered from 200 instrumentalists, and as tlve last notes died away, public enthusiasm acclaimed the musicians with cries of "Vive la France." Demonstrations iiko these speak more eloquently on the state of mind of tho x>coplo than all tho diplomatic notes, telegrams, and protocols in tho world.