Paris, Nov. 28.
(Delayed in transmission) While doing justice to M, Clemenbe done in France. "The trouble Alsace is only a symptom. The evil has taken root in the heart and head. The country is going to sleep and abandoning its ideals. Tt needs moral revolution, and I am too old to attempt it. I am afraid to tell the whole truth. If T did, I might discourage the healthy, vital, encergetic elements that remain." Do you know why our position in the world is becoming more and more dificult? Te is because the Frenchman is brave in warfare but cowardly in peace."
'Towards the end he was still hard his judgments but had ceased to be pitiless. "I have often been very' unjust," he said "and T have done foolish things. I realize it now that Tsce them from a distance, but my Jconseience tells me one thing—that Thave always loved my country and tried 08 serve it to the best of my ability."
Tt was quite in accordance wi his character to order that I should be of the simplest! possible character and that no rations should be delivered over his remains. He left directions. in his will that he should be buried beside his father in a wood belong-at Mouchamps, in The offer of a of his fiat in the Rue Franklin at two-o'clock in the morning, placed in a motor hearse and driven off to Mouchamps. The hearse left Paris by the Porte d'Orléans, and orders were given that all outgoing traffic was to be stopped for a quarter of fan hour, so that no Press cars would be able to follow. In this way the people of Paris were deprived of all opportunity of paying their tribute of respect.
Tt was of course impossible to have the interment carried out in complete. privacy, although hundreds of gendarmes were mobilized to keep the public back. The gendarmes were stationed in a circle all round the approaches to the wood, and only a select few of the newspaper correspondents and photographers were allowed to come near enough to see the coffin lowered Jinto the grave. This operation was performed without a.word and with no ceremony of any kind—a singular contrast to the manner which the world usually consigns its great men to Mother Earth but in conformity, we must assume, to Clemenceau's own wishes. He did not escape speeches, although they were not delivered over his grave. The Senate and the Chamber heard two eloquent orations and adjourned. in token of mourning. On Sunday the associations of ex-soldiers will pay honour to his memory by a grand parade to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This will be the people's way of showing that Clemenceau's services are not for~ gotten.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.