Another characteristic instance of German bad faith was announced recently which helps to explain why the French are much less anxious than their British neighbours to resume friendly relations with brother Boche, the Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" wrote on October 21. Under the stipulations of the Peace Treaty the whole of the French regimental flocs captured by the Prussians during the war of 1870 and since displayed as trophies in the arsenal at Berlin were to be given back to France.
It was intended that these flags should figure in a solemn cortege which was to be organized on November 11 for the translation of the heart of Gambetta to the Pantheon on the occasion of the celebration of the Jubilee of the Third Republic. In a letter to a Deputy, reproduced in recent papers, the Premier, M. Georges Leygues, stated that a Mission had been sent to Berlin to identify the flags, and bring them back to Paris in time for the ceremony.
A Berlin telegram to "Lo Journat" recently stated that when the French delegates went to interview the German authorities at the arsenal they were offered a few old French helmets and rifles, but were told that it was impossible to hand over the flag as they had all been burnt last year as a sacrifice offered up at the foot of the monument of Frederick the Great. It remains to be decided what form the reparation will take that will undoubtedly be demanded by the French Government to atone not only for the destruction of the trophies but also for the deliberately insulting manner in which the facts have been revealed.
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