FRENCH FETE DAY.
CELEBRATIONS IN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA. MESSAGE PROM DOMINIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 14. Remarkable Empire-wide arrangements are being made to celebrate the French National Fete Day. Tricolors are selling everywhere on behalf of the 'Croix Rouge and the organisers expect to raise £100,000. There are many special matinees and other features. The English Workers' League will give a monster demonstration. Queen Alexandria, m a special message, commends the noble tnterprise to the people of the Empire. The Daily Chronicle publishes a series of messages from the overseas Dominions, including one from Mr. Massey, expressing homage to France. ' \ ■■> President Poincare, m a message to the British people, expresses France's unbounded admiration for the deeds cf Britain's glorious ,navy and the wonderful development of .the Empire's mighty resources, and sends affectionate greetings of a lasting brotherhood to the United Kingdom and the Dominions overseas. > , ... t ■ ■■' SYDNEY, July 14. Similarly with other parts of th» Empire, the Commonwealth seized the opportunity of the French Fete Day to honor our ally with a great display of the tricolor. The principal features were Requiem Masses for the French soldiers and big military parades. .A meeting at the Town Hall passed resolutions appreciative of France's valor and at official luncheons the speakers eulogised France. The Red Cross Society has donated £1000 to the French Society. The woolbrokers on the Sydney Exchange subscribed £3244 and presented it to the French League of Mercy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14045, 15 July 1916, Page 3
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