SEVEN WOODEN LEGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1925, Page 2

SEVEN WOODEN LEGS

GIFTTO SENATOR BORAH, Pleading anew that French war dead be reckoned with when the United States fixes the amount of the French debt, a delegation of former soldiers lias delivered to the American Embassy to be forwarded to Senator William E. Borah a casque containing a United States medal, seven wooden legs, the fin hat of 'a Verdun veteran, and a history of the American War of Independence. This ironical gift was delivered on the 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 casque was accompanied by an address seeking the good offices of Ambassador Herrick to interpret, as a friend of b rance, the- feelings of French veterans. “We beg you to transmit to Senator Borah, on behalf of us French ex-com-batants,” the leader of the delegation said, “this history of the War of Independence, together with this medal awarded to one of our comrades for saying the life of your (American) officers at the front. He has no further use for it. He restores it to Senator Borah, to whom we owe so many dollars. We send him. also this wooden leg. such as many thousands of those mutilated in the war wear. Ah, may Senator Borah realise that the day may come when the price of the gold he wishes to accumulate will not be worth the price of the blood we shed.”