Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-18
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M. Clemenceau was anxious to rec ompense with his own hands the he roism of a young French girl. and in his cabinet March 20, in the presence of his principal collaborators. he handed to Mile. Louise Thuiliez, who was surrounded by the members of her family. the Cross of the Legion of Honor and the CroiX de Guerre with palms.
 Twice Mile. ThuiIiez during the oc- cupaton Of Nalenciennes was sen tenced to death by German courtmar- i<tials. On the first occasion, at the same ktime as Miss Edith Cavell met her fate, she was accused of having while at Brussels helped entente sol diers to escape, and of having acted as spy for the benefit of France Intervention by the Spanish enbas- sy procured from the German emper- or the communication of the sentence to one of penal servitude fon life, but a | fortnight later she was accused before another courtmartial of having, after the exploitation of Maubeuge and the battle of Charleroi. collected together l French soldiers who had remained in the forest of Norval. The death pen ! alty was again pronounced, and was once more commuted. Mile. Thuiliez. i for having shown too great d devotion ' of hard labor
 | This was the story that NJ. Clemen-
 ceau recalled when pinning on ;he breast of Mile. :Thuiliez the reward of I the brave.
 Apropos Of the anniversary of the l great German attack, launched on March 21. 1918. the Matin has inter viewed Marshal Foch, who disclaimed
 the credit Of having alone achieved
 skill" he said. 'Gs not sufficient. Faith is also necessary because it precludes the idea of retreat Our splendid soldiers obtained the victory
 not I. My only merit was that i never despaired"
 ! On March 4 and p. the interviewer recalled, certain men who were not teasily discouraged lest heart Mar
 shal Foch replied that he knew moth i ing of that, but added:
 q said to them. My thoughts are ot ] France and France cannot die. Thc Germans will be stopped immediately We have only to say that the enemy
 shall not pass. and I guarantee tht.t
 he will not pass. It is not . question of eVacuattrg Paris which is a Ions
 way away. It is a question of stop ping the Germans here where they
 are"
 Marshal Foch.- the Matin recalls was clearly inspired with the sam, faith on October 3i, 1914, in front O the Yser, Sir John French consid cred that his troops were exhausted and said, Nothing remains bus tt
 die"
 'No,' replied Marshal Foch; "yo1 f must hold on at all costs. There vii 'i be time to die afterwards" I Marshal Foch. at the close. of the in
 terview, referring. to the Rhine prob ? lem; is reported to have said: "Ths I : our only good line of defence. I do no
 ask for annexation, but if we do no s have this military frontier we sha1 ? have fought in vain"
 :. General Sir Edmund AIIenby belong | to an old Yorkshire family, and, join - ing the lnniskilling Dragoons in 188. Q gained his first experience of activ service against the Zulus in Sout l. Africa ' ' His great service in the recent wa $ was his capture of*the Turkish arm t of northern Palestine, lock, stock an
 barrel His liberation of Palestir 8 from the domination of the Turks wa Y signalized by his Occupation of Da e mascus in September. 1918 He prove
 himself to be one of the most capab n or the Brltlsh generals engaged in tf Il war.
 " The Rusty Buckles and the O.
 Canaries, which are nicknames for u
 2d and Sd Dragoon Guards, will n
 figure in today's march. Nor will yc It see the 4th and Eth Dragon Guard 't which were called The Butternilks,
 Mounted Mikes and The Old Farmer n on account of their heightened stay L. Ireland.
 |. But the Sandbags Coal Heavers al
 Old Eyes. as the Grenadier Guar
 have been nicknamed will be the oL with the Nulh Secundus. Coldstrea