FIGHT FOR SOUVENIRS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 2

FIGHT FOR SOUVENIRS.

Down at. Vincennes I m*t .a cheerful soldier who had returned for a greatly , needed rest. He still hobbled a bitjj but he is gobg to rejoin 3iis regiment ■ in a day or two. What he really remembers of the fight on the Aisne is his subsequent quarrel wi^h his nurse— goodness knot's where! JSh.e extracted the bullet, and claimed it as a memento—tha first bullet '"he i.ad <n-or taken out. The patient demanded it as the first oullethe had e,er taken in. and in the "friendly boui t':e nut'se won She had tho bullet. Said a British Tommy i.o nifi only yesterday, "We hav,e to look «luu piy after our badges, or they would soon be gone. Yesterday, when I was sitting on the pavement having a coffee I felt a hand on my shoulder, and turned round to face a girl, who asked me very charmingly for one of my stars as a souvenir.—Paris correspondent. A DRAMATIC CEREMONY. The first French court in the reconquered territory of Thanu, "Alsace, was installed the other week. The ceremony was dramatic. The Court was crowded with girls in picturesque Alsatian costumes, and old men who had waited forty odd years for ta« day when Franco should return to Alsace. The Court-room was silent until tho guard of honour of Dragoons posted | back of the dais drew their sabres at tho word of command from their officers. Another officer entered the room, advanced to tho judge's desk, and in solemn tones proclaimed: "In the name of the French people^——" The low sobbing of an old Alsatian, unable to restrain his emotion, interrupted the officer, but after a short pause, lie continued: ' -■ ■ —and by virtue of the instructions of-the. General commanding the First Army, we declare M. , Judge of Thann, with jurisdiction," etc. That was all. The young people rushed cheering out into the streets, while the old wen remained for a while in their places in quiet ecstasy.