FRENCH SHOWING GREAT TENACITY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 9

FRENCH SHOWING GREAT TENACITY.

PRAISE TO ALLY GIVEH BY SUK-

GEON-GENEfRAL,

■ Vancouver; March 11. Speaking to the Canadian' Glub, Vancouver, Surgeon -General G. S. Ryerson paid a r great tribute to. the French, and gave many interesting sidelights on the ;He- told his audience ofi the Huri> outrages, ' how they seized ' everything of value before evacuating territory, daported the people, and destroyed what was left, and when, their slaves became •ill sent theuft into the -Allies lines, not from, motives of humanity but because they were useless tq" the Germans. Ten thousand a month iwere coming into the Avion sector, he said. z ," We have, a, great" ally m the French," he declared. "I can. not speak too highly of, them. They are showing? what we did not; expect them to show — ! tenacity of purpose and ability to stand under the greatest stress." ■ : . B!e described: his .visit* to the battle lfields of the - Marne and Aisne and tola ! rdk audience how 1 the women and obifcL- ) l*ii were cultivating crops on the site of' those great conflicts, and how the villages. w^,e. slovyjy being . rebuilt, -..-,. - . ■ "As to the war, I don't think it will end this year," W said. "We are going to have very severe fighting, and it wiU be. a 7: tejrifip'Lyea« i "with imifiense casiiai-t'i©s,^?-H«i|a|>pea|pd for support for, the\ Red' Cro&l and "described *he various dressing stations and 1 field hospitals, down, to Boulogne; 1 which ho termed"the oitjv of pain." He then went on to"; paint scenes of thp hbajjitial ships and}! .said that seven of ih'e/e veissels had boon'! mxik by U-boats., although properly mm^ked. , . . >'\ "Luckily, the loss of life has not been ! great," he added. "But snclv things ! should never havo happened with' any. civilised enemy," He told of the fortf: tude offche.natire Indian 'troops,t suffer;-' ing from serious -wounds but quite \ pleased. . .A . little fthurka told- him, through an interpreter, that ihe had had "«. yer^ .good %\m%" A Pathau smacked Mis 3ips and said, "This is something like a wav-^-it ; leaves a, iuie taste m the moutih," ■■•''■',