The school magazine of literature for our boys and girls / the Department of Education, New South Wales

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Vol. 3 No. 8 Part 3 Class 6 (September 3, 1918)
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THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE  

OF  

Literature for our Boys and Girls.  

ISSUED MONTHLY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, NEW SOUTH WALES.  

r.\ JIT 111 FOE CLASS VI.  

[Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, for Transmission by Post as Newspaper.]  

Copies of this Magazine may be purchased from Government Printer and all Booksellers.  

Vol. lII.— No. 8.  

SYDNEY.  

Sept. 2, 1918.  

FRENCH APPRECIATION.  

(Commonwealth Official Correspondent.)  

On 7th July there occurred an episode which will be  

remembered by Australian children for centuries after those  

 

who read it to-day are dead and gone. It was the warm-  

hearted, spontaneous, generous-minded visit of the Grand  

Old Man of France to the Australian troops in the front  

after their recent fighting. The news of the Battle of Hamel  

reached Paris just at the time when the Dominion Premiers  

were visiting there. They were sitting round the table in  

consultation with M. Clemenceau and Mr. Lloyd George. All  

sent at once telegrams of warm congratulations to the Aus-  

tralian troops’ commander. The venerable French Premier,  

the man upon whose fiery courage and grand deter-  

mination France has depended through this year of terrible  

trial, turning to his Secretary, said: “Telegraph them my  

warmest congratulations ” Then “ No,” he added “I  

will go and see them and congratulate them myself."  

True to his words the Premier of France came from Paris  

in his motor-car, to the Australians who were concerned  

in the Hamel fight. The little white-haired Frenchman, with  

his genial, laughing face, humorous kindly eyes, and  

chin firmer than steel, went amongst our officers and men  

straight away, talking in English and laughing with them.  

He gathered the Australian boys round him in the one big  

semi-circle. He did not attempt to hand them out cheap  

easy flattery, but simply, and with quite obvious emotion,  

he told them what he had come from Paris to say, on behalf  

of the French people—he spoke in English— ‘I am glad to  

(be able to speak at least this small amount of English,  

because it enables me to tell you what all the French think  

[Price Id.]  

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