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NGDOM, SPEAKING IN THE ^
■ME OF THOSE WHOM WE.
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[GRATITUDE TO O'UR GALLANT AUIES , THE '.FRENCH:

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: HEARTS OF THEEGOPLE HAVE BUT ONE SENTiMENTi
TOWARDS THEM.-A SENTmENTOFDEEP SYMPATHY,
llFOR THEIR UNMERITED SUFFERINGS ■ AND OF 1
PROFOUNDEST ADMIRATION FOR TFIELR-N raj
GALLANTRY IN THE FIELD • 0IDE BY SIDE^
WITH THEM WE WILL FIGHT TO THE END OF 1
[ THIS WAR THAT HAS BEEN THRUST UPON '
us, until a lasting u rightgous PEXce-^J

HAS BEEN WON , AND IT IS OUR 6ARNEST HCPE.
• AND PRAYER THAT THE CONCORD BETGQ6EN ^
’OURTCOO GReKT NATIONS, FOUNDED ON COMMON J
? SACRIFICE y CEMENTED BY THE BLOOD OF J
THOUSANDS OF THEIR BRAVEST AND BEST <
AW CONTINUE AS LONG AS THE K(ORlD ENDUES

ADDRESS FROM THE MUNICIPALITIES
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TO THE
PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH
REPUBLIC. WRITTEN AND ILLUMI-
NATED BY JESSIE BAYES