ADVOCATES FOR PEACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 398, 16 May 1922, Page 6

ADVOCATES FOR PEACE.

- FRANCE DEEPLY MOVED. Received May 15, 9.45 a.m. PARIS, May 14. France is deeply moved by the King's noble words at Terrlincthun, especially the following quotation: "In this fair land of France, which sustained the utmost fury of the long strife, our brothers are numbered by hundreds of thousands. They lie in the keeping of a tried and generous friend, a resolute and chivalrous comrade in arms, who with ready and quick sympathy has set aside for ever the soil in which they sleep so that we and our descendants may for all time reverently tend and preserve their resting places. 1 have many times asked myself in the course of my pilgrimage whether there can be more potent advocates for peace upon earth through tho years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." The whole press pays a warm tribute to the King's speech; many of the newspapers pointedly differentiate between the speech and Mr Lloyd George's attitude towards Franco at Genoa, contending that Mr Lloyd George does not represent tho English feeling. The Figaro states: "There issued from every sentence of tho King's speech a high emotion. Who knows but the old hatreds which separated France and England lie buried in the graves of our heroes, and that even the monstrous efforts of the politicians Will fail to re-awaken them." The Rcpublique Francais states: "The King's pious pilgrimage comes opportunely to remind the exasperated French nation that Mr Lloyd George is not England." The Rappel suggest) that some kind friend should translate the King's speech into English for the benefit of Mr Lloyd George. M. Millerand, replying to the King's message on the eve of his departure front Boulogne, expressing the Empire's gratitude to France for the generous gift ot ground for the cemeteries hallowed by memories of common sorrows and glories, stales that "France will never forget the sublime sacrifice of the British soldiers who fell by Ihe side of the French soldiers in the course of the terrible but glorious struggle against unjust aggression. The memory of the heroes of the British Army will forever remain piously honoured in the land where they foughi so magnificently together. With the French nation and the Government, 1 join in the homage your Majesty has just done to the glorious British and 'French soldiers for ever united in the gratitude and admiration of the two countries.''—A. and N.Z. cable.