Oct, 28.
To-day the "North-China Daily, News" is able to publish the! first photographs of the moving' seenes attending the disaster -to the R-101 and the transport of the bodies of the victims from rance to England. At the time! the cables were engaged in flashing the news of this disaster to to Shanghai, mention was made in appropriate Janguage of the: sympathy expressed by the. French nation in the tragedy' enacted before its eyes. The, cables, however, did not give an. adequate description of the intensity and the spontaneity of the remarkable tribute which the French nation paid to the honour ed dead. It was realized that in France, where leas than 12 years ago, British and French soldiers had become accustomed to the privilege of dying together for the sake of a common ideal, there would be left much inspiration for homage this kind. But even the most convinced supporter of Anglo-French friendship could hardly have been prepared for the wonderful" demonstrations of affection and grief which were displayed in that first week of, the present month in France.
The special correspondent of "The Times" on October 7
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.