The Archive · 1926

Taught in France

After crossing the channel ints France the youths went to Paris where they obtained Jobs. While working there for about three! months, one in a rubber factory and the other ax a school teacher and chauffeur, they saved money, saw Paris and learned some French, Geneva, Switzerland, their next important stop was reached by wal ing through the picturesque French and Swiss Alps. "In this famous ity they attended a session of the League of Nations, saw Sir Austen p, Chamberlain, and' heard him announce the settlement of the recent, Graeco-Bulgarian border _dispute. Leaving Geneva they visited the! famous places and beautiful scenery' of Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples," Mount' Vesuvius and Pompeii.

The two wanderers next went to Marseilles, France, from which port! they worked their way to Beirut, Syria, in the stoke hold of the Pythias, a French military. transport. In Syria they went inland id_saw something of the war.

les tine with its scenes of religious story, Nazareth, Bethlehem and, Jerusalem followed.

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