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KOSMOS CLUB HEARS SPLENDID ADDRESSES (CONT:JEKI) FROM PAGE ONE.) on the one side ran streams of Frenc-h blood, and on the oth er side the streams of German blood, but where the spirit, the fighting, loving, aspiring spirit of the French soldier made a romance and a song out of even the grimness and horror of the trenches. At night they will sing love songs. "It is one of the most admira ble things in this war; one of the most striking examples of sacrifices." "As regards the women of France," he said, "they have done their duty most heartily. In every kind of work which will contribute to the success of France her women are busy. At the beginning of the war we had only 25,000 women workers in our factories; in 1916 we had 225,000, and to have 475,000, nearly half a day at this precise moment, we million women, working in the factories making munitions and other things that are requir ed." M. Lauzanne reviewed the history of Alsace and lorraine and he made it plain that France would not accept a peace that does not include the return to her mother arms of the lost provinces torn from her by the war of 1870-71. "They tell us that we should make peace. The Germans have made us offers of pecae that insult us to our teeth. They tell us they are ready to for give us. To forgive us what? What kind of peace? A peace that is but a pretext, a peace that would mean nothing but a period to enable Germany to prepare for another war." He quoted from German docu ments to prove that this was Germany's purpose; that the Germans felt that this present war had begun a year too soon; that there should be a term of peace for further military and industrial mobilization to the end that Germany might ac complish hereafter her vast designs of world conquest. "We are fighting for the things which you people in this country have fought and bat tled-we are fighting for an idea. We are fighting to re store to the world to all lands liberty, humanity and above all the spirit of respect for inter national law. Peace will come only when the spirit of Prus sian militarism is destroyed and crushed clown. It must go, but it wvill go only when the Ger mans shall understand that they are not the stronget neo_ ple, but the weakest. When they understand that it is not theirs to dictate the terms of peace, but that it is heir part to agree and submit to the terms of peace. It will come when the Germans know that they have to respect the rights and liberties of every nation of the world, whether strong or weak. This is the kind of peace we want, and this why we shall continue to fight to the end. "You have been told that France is suffering; that she is exhausted, bled white. I tell you it is true that France is suffering, but we are ready to endure and to suffer until, if it comes to such an end, there shall be no more France. But we are prepared to suffer more; we are not exhausted. In Sep tember, 1914, at the battle of the Marne, France had 1,500, 00 men in the field. Now France has an army of 2,7500,000 men. In 1914 we were making 12, 000 shells per day; today we are making 250,000 shell per day. During the period of the war the French people have raised, contributed and paid sums aggregating more than twenty billions of dollars. Of this sum only two billions have been borrowed from other countries. The remainder has been paid by France. Today, on the western front, the French hold towt-hirds of the line, which is more than 300 miles long. Opposing the French army on the western front are eighty-one German divisions. Is this the state of an exhausted land? At the conclusion of M. Lau zanne's address, Gov. Charles A. Whitman of New York was introduced by the president of the club. He told of his visit to Spar tanburg, where the troops of New York are quartered at Camp Wadsworth, and he thanked the people of South Carolina for their kindness and hospitality to those men. Gov. Manning spoke feeling ly of the emotions which M. Lauzanne's address aroused in him, of the part which Sc uth Carolina had played in our own war in the cause of liber ty, in which this country was so valiantly helped by France. There were other short ad dr(esses upon the subject by the members of the Cosmos club, and several of the guests, in cluding talks by Gen. Bailey and several of the officers. Prof. V. E. Rector has the fol lowing speaking engagements: Manning, November 9; Iva, No vember, 16; Lebanon school in Anderson county, November, 17; Crescent school at Blaney, No ~vember~ 2. Globe Dry Goods Co. 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