The French Senate and Chamber paid _homage on Monday to
that grand old man, M. Clemenceau, and to Marshal Foch, and decided that statues of them should be erected at the public expense, and that a sword of honour should be offered to the Marshal. M. Renoult said with great truth that M. Clemenceau " in the supreme hour was the incarnation of the nation's hopes and undaunted will to conquer," and that Marshal Foch was " the leader whose high military science and incomparable and masterly clearness of strategic conceptions forced a victory." The victory, he concluded, was " the triumph of thoroughly French ideas of justice, right, and universal peace." These ideas, we may add, are finely expressed in General Petain's Order of the Day to the French armies which are about to march into Germany. Occupied France, he tells them, has suffered hateful outrages from the Germans, but the French troops must not treat the German people in the German way. After having defeated the enemy with arms, they must impress him by their dignity, so that the world will not know which to admire the more—the bearing of the French armies in success or their heroism in battle. The British soldier's good- humoured toleration, we are sure, will astonish the Rhinelanders.
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