Evening star., 1914-09-27
Ancient Stronghold on st.
Lawrence Brave With Flags
and Martial Airs.
PEOPLE, FRENCH AT HEART.
ARE LOYAL TO BRITAIN
So Both Racial and Political Al
1egiance Bind Them to Cause
of the Allies.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
QUEBEC. September 24.-Quebec is
red with flags. And everywhere-
everywhere-bands are playing God
Save the King" England has called
across seas to her colonial sons and
Canada's answer is-"forward march,
A descent from cannon-crowned cita-
del to the town below may be a choice
between trolley. motor or caleche: a
brsa thless slide in a lock-box or a peg
down break neck stairs. which have
literally felt the tread of passing CEN
turies. but
At every turn you are face to face
with the standard which Britain has
planted over all crea ton. and at each
corner the vista will include soldiers
maching from ramparts to transport
left-right, left-right. Redcoats with
rakish caps and chin-straps: putties.
topped with khaki: bare-legged High
landers-so many Harry Ladders in SO
many rows. step. step
And always bands playing. And
everywhere flags. hags, taes!
Along the streets are more soldiers
youngsters from the other side OF
Canada's great divide-and contrasted
with the pulsing life of today are
across rope-girdled breasts; nuns pass
ing in cloistered blacks and grays:
priests In cassocks and quaint hats
and-at one side street-a line of SEM
sashes of those hundreds of years
back when England Canadian GIbral-
tar was the Quebec of Champlain-the
cradle of new France.
Get Double Moneys Worth.
And in and out among the crowds are
tourists, and yet more tourists. getting
double their moneys worth of thrills.
Being one of them, you ask an oldish
man next some trifiing question
merely his privatest opinion as to the
war and Canada's part in it-but the
only answer you get IS a polite shake
OF the head. When a woman and an
other man have contributed two more
polite shakes of non-comprehension you
begin to have something more than
guide book realization that while Que
bees body polite is English, her soul is
French.
In Montreal. a few days back. your
Irish driver halts at one point of the
road that ribbons up Mount Royal to
give you q view of the city below: In
and parley-vouish French-and which no
outsider could ever hope to acquire be-
cause to get 1t you have to be born In
the middle Of the three pronunciations
--he tells you that of MontreaPs 10000
inhabitants two-thirds are French and
the third that is English 8 half Irish.
And the: same percentage seems to
hold good in Quebec;
To go back to the driver-who Is
worth the journey-he, too. is esnecting
to be called to the war. Here is how he
Now that We have home rule every
Irishman the world over will be glad
to fight whenever Mother Britannia gives
the word. (Not stepmother. mind). But
a raq ma
me. You see. my brother is a family
man. so the other day when the war
ONCE summoned him for his name and
address he put down mine instead. And
a good trick. too. for I have only my
father and my horse"
Then he fiicked gentle whip at his
slightest idea that he was of the stun
that saints are made of-and soldiers.
Knows Trials of War.
The Canadian who joins the army is
no braggadocious chap who sees him
self coming home diked out in the
glories of war. He knows that every
inch of soil In his province is drenched
with fighting blood-Indian, French,
British American-and that while
churches. converts. hospitals and parks
are SO many reminders of warriors
who have made history for Quebec,
there is but scant sculptured recogni-
ton of the dust that lies deep under
every battlefield in the country-name-
less ranks and files that blazed the
way to fame for a handful of generals
and then fiared out. like dead matches.
One splendid exception "a shaft
crowned with a statue of Bellona, god
dess of war-stands on the Avenue des
Braves. once the battle-ground of Ste.
Foye. and commentaries alike the
French and British soldiers; opposing
armies that mingled together in the
neutrality of death.
You cannot walk a square of Que
bees present without coming to some
memorial of her past. Bronze Cham
plain. founder Of the old French city.
looks from -Dufferin terrace down the
slopes he wrested from arrows and
tomahawks. Marquis de Montcalm.
who lost Canada to the British. lies in
tne chapel Of the Ursuline convent
within the glow of a sanctuary light
that has burned. undimmed. for more
than 200 years. A quantity peaked
house. on corner in the old town. is
venerated as Montcalm's headquarters,
and op the heights of Governors Gar
den there is a monument which per-
petuates alike the achievements of
the defeated general and of Wolfe, the
British victor. both of whom fell NOR
tally wounded on the plains of Abra-
ham. This is the inscription, lettered
in French:
Valor gave them a common death
History common fame and Posterity
o common monument"
Unique Among Monuments.
II IL claimed to be the only instance
on this continent of joint tribute te
victor and vanquished.
A tablet on Cape Diamonds stony
base marks where gallant Montgomery
fell-the adjective SO insistent that one
would suppose ii the hero's given name
where gallant Montgomery fell In
MS attack on Quebec. Benedict Arnold
as brave a continental as ever drew