KILTED SOLDIERS CHEERED BY PARIS.
PARIS. July 16. Generous and enthusiastic praise was showered yesterday on the British soldiers who paraded; through the streets of Paris in the Bastile Day parade on Sunday. Speaking of the impression' made on the multitude by the sons of Britain, thei Action Francaise says: — "To hear how crisply their heels struck the road in perfect step was like hearing the faint and solemn echo of the strains of 'Rule Britannia.' Tliose magnificent specimens of Anglo-Saxon manhood rose above the line without spoiling it, and we may say without hesitation, because we know we shall be* "understood by oiir__in<*,Qmparable poilns, that it was Britaiivs troops, especially tho Scottish, who produced the greatest impression. o»ne must have seen them to have experienced a sort of magnetic influence which deeply affected all as they advanced, almost as if dancing to the strains of the melancholy but inspiring bagpipes. As the kilted, bare-kneed sons swung by in perfect harmony of motion to th© strain of Scottish airs, the cjreat throngs along the line of march broke into shouts of 'Long Live Britain,' 'Long Live Scotland.'"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 7
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187KILTED SOLDIERS CHEERED BY PARIS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 7
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