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'It/is .primarily asm man- of character

and action, fortified by the theory be- gun and practised ln the new doctrines of war thlal'/the-intellectual leaders have worlmd out, that Joffro now stands at the head' df' Eh: 'French army.

And the-'world had -not to wait long to

see the individual quality of his leader Ubi? ltaraqod upon.: great battle. His pichme may not yet be completely painted and dared; but if one were ln- cllned to-look for some resemblance be- tween Joffre sndasome other great leader of history, one would probably choose Grant. as his nennmt equivalent, except ilhat in techniul skill Grant 'mu-l incom- parably above his~ed'ucal.lon, while lt is almost impossible for the French Gen- eral to improve very, much upon the Flrenclvdoctrine. Isis in ty-pe more than in circulnshvnce 'that the two men seem to resemlile each other--quiet, runnin- ating, both perhaps a little slow to move, certainiy~nsv¢-fr "run away with" hy their ideaa, absolutely clear as to what duty is and what it is not, powerful “prime movers" and resolute fighters.

Both, too, were domesticated citizens,

and this has its importance in the case of Jnffre. For no man whose clvism was not above repmaell would have been, or could have been, entrusted with dicta- torial [rowers by n republic to which three distinct pardel of numarchlsts lay claim. There is a wonderful letter in

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lr:-nl r-ll lin- llrlilnnu-_v expr-dilioll to Afrll-n. fm his rctllrn l`in.'lll_\' in l°`rl'.llcc, , ill- 1-.-5 .4 |l|'ufc:=snr al lllr- Evoll- do lillrrrv. lflllll fill-tl alll'-r important pusltlmls; but Ili \\'.'l.: not lill 1005 tllnt llc ohtllincll lllc lrlpanll-lll-< ol ll hrlgndicr gl-"rrl'nl.

'l`,’ll-ulfll llc hr-valnc lnlv-r l‘hll-f l-l' the

Gerlcrnl Si:\fl‘_ hr- lvnll no nlnrv- ¢~o:nnl:ln~ (1.3, lp ch;-af, whilu pr-nfl- rf-ilzucll, ihllll the ('\li¢\f nf lhc Gcncrnl Staff is “War l.|\`rd" ill if-erlllun,\’. 'l`llc suprclnf- wolll- mnndcr nf thc l<`rl-ncll army nnrl nary | is the Prllsiflv-n‘__ who 1-.rr-rr-lar-s flint com- mand. ns far as thc- army is 1-llllcnrndll. thru'-lllh thc .\Iillisl|-l' of \\`:lr. Bill Joffre soon bccanlc dicrnlnr. The War Minister la aald lv have remznlked that

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(ls-nr-rlll .lnffrf-, ll0l\'e\'l-r. called for

rr-silrrtntions on tlll- sunt. Among the re- tiring office-rs wcrr- one nr lwo mr,-ll of lzreut cln-rgy null rl:-vntioll lo duty. For tllenl it was ll hard lllnw. But Gfllrrlll Jnffrl- had llc:-n put in nffif-e tn lnakc thc l*`rclll-ll arm; ns nrnr pcrfcciioll as il 1-ould ill- hrlnlglll, and in this, all ln otllr-r things. nn cnnalderalioli would mlllu: him awcrvc- from the line of duty.

lil- rr-lil:-'rnlv-red, doubtless, that tile l

licrnlan vic‘_orll~a in 1806 and lSTO were the lngi.-al sfqllmlvc nf their peace lnanov-uvrc.=. iii- regarded nlllnueuvrcs ns ll rchnnrsrll uf the raal thing. and the lm-mbcra nf his company who did not' ilnolv their parts he cast nut. There has hm-n nom- rl' fin- comfortable fl-el~ inc that "il will lm all rilrllt in the ered" l

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` army commanders who had been tolling the world that "tho country needs a. dic- intor_" “Only those commanders who gain military success," wrote he great l’rceident, "can set up an dtctaiors. Give lnr- success, and l will risk I dictator- ship."

And the French republic has shown

hmv it believes in the axiom tlrday.

Ii has been said that lf Fnnce had had

a Joffre in 1870 the probability is that the Germnlls would not have won.` Like Iron! Kitchener, Jnffra la an organizer of victory. Ile does not bellow in flashes of genius; lie knows that lol(-and cam- ful preparation is necessary. Never for a single moment dl.-ring me three years that he has been at the head ofthe sraay has he forgotten the purpose for which he '.\-an appointed--to prepare for the struggle in which Francs ia engaged to- day.

Now sixty-two yearn of ags. General

Iinlfre ill a msn of medium height, shift, lrilh a massive head. fair hair, and with a

since (ll-neral .loffre lnnk conlrni of the army.

'Pills :nay sr-rln loss than fair to his l

llrr-llccc_ssm‘s, wlm \\‘fFrf\ strung, hlird \ working -_nl-n of thc lllghr-at slliilty. and in fact rr»\.'lt/-<l rhr- army wllich fi:-naral ' .lnffrv has aivnnly tuncll up. Andilt nley hurt lin-nl l- mink lllnt the oppor- lllllitl' of llnllflliulz ll-rl l'n"' has cnmn

'lftcr ilwir limi-, . | _llonro madl- lim army ll... \\'rlllng- lnn lvns to lclld: Pnrllwt ilu- troops 'nf l .\'l\pnl¢-nn; I\fc4'|l-llnn thc nrlny with l which Grant crushed thc l`olli'¢~dr-racy.l

thick drooping mustache, and heavy eye- brows nearly concealing the eyes.

llia will, the outstanding feature of his

character, is that under the llndcst, quitteat, most unaffected, most only |0- lng manner is the steel determination that can shut tight like a visa upon lla purpose.

".-\ good hean fnr a wntchdvlt "lim,

hut always ready to bite." ls one of the firrl description-: I ever heard of the French lfommander in l.`-lllcf. Tllerc lsj more truth in this than ln ulmvt eplrrams. You have only to see how that calm, -

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slow manner fiasllr-s .into energy as he refuses a suggestion. Ile looks like wiping it out of cxistence with nur- lll>» cisive movement of his llllnfl. 'il-nern! Joffre is the most determined anllporil-l' in France of the policy of altnvlr for ll commander. “The only tactics" ls what lle calls the offensive.

Ile is a gcncral, ton, who has the

lltlnost confidence in his troops. “Thr- F`rr-ncll are warriors by tr-mperzlnlent," is one of his sllyilllas; and though in the lrolllzsc of his vllrcer he has sf-en the luxuries nf life lncrelaac und ullllli- ply, so accordingly he helleves that tin- young lncn of to-day lm- as good soldiers as tllosl- llc colnmalldr-d as n boy lieu- tenant forty~four ye-are ago.

Ha is known io few. llis friend Ili.

Pujadc recently ref-trail to him ln :ln

in thc- corridors of the \Vn|- Uffi.-9, have

and his peculiar garb. lt was ll. rlllort luvket and a tall llat. lie nc-vcr wore a v.xlil’orln in ills- \\'.'.r Office.

_Like his coadjutor, Gellerlll Sir John

litiia. Ho docs not oven writl-. Yet. vust as is his capacity for sill-lu-c, you nt-ver feel lllut he is silent. ln-cnllac he llasl noillillll io say. You fccl llc il-l silent hr-.csllso llc has tml much io talk llllout. And when hr- speaks what he says is pithy and lo the poinl, ills rosull nf quiet' rcfleciioll, .spoken with studivd cx- Dffrilsillll, in slow, strail;htfllrwl»\r<l xen- tenccs. Thr-re is no eloquence about what he says, nn flummery.

>"_._"4\`7§';,i*___‘l,_.E,_e`:g Alil)l.\ had man ll/. - f elm he felt it

‘ivm.:`:\w'-/ an sign or iladge to in-

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banners. From tile.

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` "l forul of flags and

_ rf-ry earliest limes Q ' 'i wc, find traces of

lhcsc stnndnrrla, which were guarded with thi- lllnlost rf-no-r:\t.inn and usllnlly

` 1-‘rom this wc ll:|\'i> the tradition, now l inlzrnincll ill usl. that the flag of a coun-

it is alnlnst sm-rl-d, and the fight for thc siunllnl':l" has `ncr-ll the subject ot'

of inter:-st hx-irfly to indicate the history and manning of the flags of thc various wllrrillg naiiollsl.

'l\ak»>, fil-nl, tllf- flag nf (lr-rlnally. lt

must he rcnlemlrered that prior to thc F`ranco-Prllssiall War of P370 the Ger- mnll Elnpira was littlc mlm- than n gr lllp lof scattered Sinfca. \Vhan they cum- biaed into n single elnpirr. llowevl-r_ il is only natural that we sllmlld look fur traces of all their flags lu thc rcsllltullt standard. And we find auch traces.

'i‘n he sure, llle color.~l of Prussia » hlnck

and whiff--»-and the Prllssiull Elgll-, cn-

rmnenlhorl-ll that ihia cmlnlry bor-nnlc :lt that time tho head and rlllcr of ull the otfhl-,r~s, ll. was by far the largest collu- try, both in area and population. ll. naturally, therefore-_ llecalne llrudnnli- naat. Besides the smaller States. there- wore also the flags of East and W1-sl Prussia to be included, 'Phat of West Pnlmla was hlaclr, whit:-, hlack, three ltrlpes of equal diameter, running the length of illc flag; that of Burt l"russ|:\ consisted of two sucll atrillr-rf, the nppl-r black and the lnwcr vvhltn. 'l‘ll»- "jack"

horizontal stripes, 'he upper black, file middle While- and the lower red. Thr- much plized iron 1-rosa ldatlllz llnck to the 1-nd of tha- lwclfth cc-nhlryl is in lhf- oclltre. This ned stripe app:-urs ill thai final wnr ensign nf the empire, in which

in the upper quarter, with the iron l-ross upon it, while thc remaining ihrmwlllar- torn arc whitc. with llle royal nrnls ill' the centrc. A black cross riivldes tha- wholz- flag into quart:-ra.

The flag of Austria la n re-ry cnmpirx

affair. To hegin with, the various _\na- trlan provinces have their own flags; llc . hemla la red-white; Tyrnl is whitl-~r:-d; Dalmads in blue-yellow: Galicia is lllno- Md; Croatia ls red-while-bil-cz lalrin is _vdow-wirltrhlue. 'Hzerl alralll. .-\ll.~llria- l-Iunfsry being a rlual m_1narrll_\~, lmlll Aeuslria and Hungary mua: he s“l\1l'f\l"' , ly repraaemed-and fully-on lhr- flag! Fortllnately. this combination was ran- dored more euy hy the far. llml por tions of the flags of both countries wi-re already the same. Thus, the Austrian flag was red-whltered, the llnngllrinn was red-whltegrecu. Compromise was ¢f(¢¢t¢d by dividing the lowest horizontal stripe in two. and leaving half red while lbo remainder was gre-en. The al-ma of both countries also appear on the flag. This was dcridcd upon March 6. lliilil, .Tho Imp'-vial standard of lhc 'l`sar

llrilclc in thc Matin na ".`loffre file;

Pnclrllllnr-, Tllmre who llnw :not him *him nr his quiet ham.. at Augeuil' you l

l“rf-null. he is a “Silent llllln." He mllo. 1

ter very largely into it, hu! il lllllst in-l

But of course it is the man of actiml that l~`rnncc has wanted; and she hal got llilll ill Joffre.

“'l'llnl`.s thi- man we need," laid M.

Brlnnfl to tha- President before his ap- ? poinllnl-nt to the Chief of Staff.

lie leaves nothing to chance. The

moililizntion of the French army took placl- in admirable order. Ill the aamo wily his plans for the campaign sro _br-ing o-xwllled with the utmost pol- liilbll- pre-vision. In the field. as ln bil office at lhr- Ministry of War, he ll “hard as nails" He gives his orders and r-.spa-cla them tn he carl-lsr] one P-U\f‘Yb'. If they are not. there is tl-nllhlo, Affaiiic, klndly and con- sidf-rale to all nllder llim, he may sym- pulllize with incompetence, hut he can- _ llol l»\'f-llonk failure.

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llennln, v.-ith his wife and two daugh- ll-rs: hill principal indoor relaxation `l»ri<lgr-. ut which ln- la, as he llaa aald Ilimself, all inlliffcreut player.

Now illc lllinds url- drawn, but

priser-rs-hy notion a modest little bunch of flowers planed on the doorstep. 'l`lle.se flowl-rs are renewed each weak. Fnl' some time it remained r. mystery lwhf-rc tllmle lmuqllots came from, until

_ ll was <lisr_~o\-r>rl»<l that the faithful ldnnor was "Pere" Jenn Garland. a vs-tr-rail of 1870. who was wounded l three times while serving with the boy l li:-nl:-nnnt. Jrlffre, and who works as A

l linkmnn at the Anteuil railway station.

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I in thc centre of which is n large double- - llcallcll black eagle. This flag dates l from tllc ycar 1472. when Ivan the Gr-gag lnlnrricli Sophia, lx nit-ce of Constantine l 1'*\lM‘0l0lwS. -and thence assumed tho l Hruls of the Greek Empire (the Rugsigm cmllracc the religion of me Greek

i(7hUF\‘l1). On the breast of the eagle _A an csc-niclwon bearing on it; red figld in sllvcr thc figure of St. George slaying hhe ]`lrsgqn.__.¢|,¢ wpmle bein' sup f°“-dvd by the collar of ul. orfln or sr. Andrew. On the dlgpllyed wi". of th. "Ile nre nther shields bearing the arm;

gf l\l°_"`- NOVZUPOG. Voldermirs, Kasan, b c. 'lhe fini; of the Tsarina is similar. _ “l "m'l_l°"_- Tl1@.Russisn Union Jack

1; very slmllarln that of England, sara l_ 't lh" Wllvflpsl cross-bars are bln, Inlfcad of red. This is the well known Russlnll war flag. The pm” 1. that of Sf. Andrew, the patron saint of Ruggig

Th” "IB Of Servia il the flag of th;

Rus:-ian merchant service reversed' for

of Servia is red~biue~whlte arranged in three horizontal stripes rlinning acl-ogg

till-V flag. The royal standard is similar. Huw I nt the royal nrms are placed In

lhaccniro of the blue stripe. -'

lh” w"" l""‘“"‘ *_~`l'<`0l°l‘ of France ll

'"“‘ " "9 °f ll""’f‘ SUIPPS-blll& rrlllte and r¢~d»~-running not the length but tha “"'m' "f 3"? fliik- It dates from the cra Of flu- French lierollltioll and came into "Xl-all-llcc in 1789, lr llaa been the na. tional flag ainc:-, with hut slight rulin- tions. in i794 thi- tri-color was n‘so "Wd" ill* lhuk of the Frcnch navy.

'Pho ifniuu Jn:-k nf (';|-,mt };,,imh;__the

nn!! l<non'n to ull--is conlpqgpq nf ||,° .tllrl-c 1-ross(-.1 ni' Ht. George-. St, Patrick and Sr. Alnlrl-w. Thar of lln- first mu, Q l"""“ 'Hi “ffl” dlfldi-ls ll... wall. flag into four while squares: the white cron “f Sf. Arldrcw. on a blue background.

*ran from corner to corner diagonally, . “"""' 'l"' "fl cross nl’ sl. Pall-il.-lr 1-an .1 (llc llalllf- directions. If thc Union .Ink |»¢- exalninod il will he found to hs nag. lmao-ll of lin-so three crosses, as statcl.. llesidvs (his, (lrnar, Britain has of .~.»nrse, the rn.\'aI standard and innu-

many rl wclndf-l'l’\ll painting. It will he wllereaslhat la wllltvblue-red, tho f|.‘ l

of the inrperial nary vonsislll oi’ three i -nv-ra-hiv other flake-~army. navy. mer.

“l\“l\f. dr". 'I‘llr- flat! was first llnfllrlcll ill l<\`0l. on the union. ill that ycnr. nl (lr--al. lirilain (England, Scotland. Wnlesl and lrf-land. 'l`ln- flnll “Y liclgillnl is compnncd of a

lriwnlor - black, yellow and red--running

the tri-color 1bIack. whiff-, rr-all nppr-urs 4 up and |l<»vvn-- lhal ia, the width and not

the ll-nclh of the flax. The royal standard has lllv arms placed in the centre of tho ,""llf\W slfill- This was adopted as the llnfinllal flag in 1951!, being orillllllly UID colors of the Ihlr-ll_v of Braham.

l-‘mul 1477 unlil 1566 Belgium belonged

ln .\uslria_ hm ml the latter date lt fell inln the halida nf Spain, In 1795 and for mmf- ye-ara following It was held by ifrrlllcc. and ill l"¥l4 was banded over to llu- Princf- /if Orange, hut ln 18N the iicllriana msc against the Hollandera and l-.urahlishf-fl their independence. The flag n hir-ll is now firm-n was l'nen adopted. P -lawn. Nippon the had ni the Rising Film -has adopted the rllllll lun as its 1-mhlem. Japan claims to possess a writ- tcn history of mor: than twenty-five lua~ dred years: lla authentic portion bqlal about the year BG) B. (1, when the prea- scnt hereditary succession of rulers com- menced. lt was only la IMI, however, that the country was open to for-Quan. The red hall without the-rays la of as lhe jack when it il placed in tho foam of the white flall. A golden rhryaaatllemnn on a rsll background is

of all the Russlas is of l.-rilliant yellow, _ lhe standard of the kpdol. ‘

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