DAY, honouring its dead on All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. These two days form what is called the Festival of the Dead—a somewhat contradictory term—faithfully observed by all classes of the community. Ite return, for the first time sines the war broke out, had a new and poignant significance; and on both days, beautifully fine and sunny, the cemeteries in and around were visited by immense throngs of people, totalling nearly 600,000 on each day. The crowds were of course exceptionally large at the three extramural cemeteries which those soldiers of the allied forces, and Germans, who died of wounds in Paris hospitals and ambulances are interred, These are situated at Bagneux and Ivry, on the south side, and Pantin, on the north-east, and in each 'a special monument was erected for ths occasion by the municipal authorities. It was of the plainest kind—a rough pyramidal frame-work of whitewashed wood slate, with a tall firtree in the centre. Evergreens were twined round the slate, and at each of the corners was ® group of flage—French, British and Belgian. Dozens of large wreaths were heaped round the foot of each monument—from the Government, the City of Paris, th: League of Patriots and other public bodies, and on a small white tablet was the inscription in gold lettering: To the memory of ths French and Allied soldiers who died in the defence of France." It was all very simple, eloquent and touching.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.