For the French poilu and our Tommy it is mostly the occasion for as much fraternisation as their fragmentary knowledge of each other's speech allows; the Frenchman is proud to show his line, the Britisher is proud to take it over; there are laughter and eager good will; on the whole, it is a red-letter day.

Then followed a tremendous fraternisation.

"I'M ALL FOR FRATERNISATION, BUT I CALL THIS OVERDOING IT."] *

Then it became a real military fraternisation.

The American officer complained that after a recent fraternisation of the two forces which had taken place in accordance with previous arrangements near the "wood mill," on the departure of the Red troops he received reports that the Red Guard officer had ordered the destruction of certain machinery at the mill, and had also torn up two sections of the line at points east and west of the station at Svagena.

Yet the hope of "fraternisation" has nearly always been in vain.

I am afraid before the war I was largely responsible for encouraging these fraternisations and discriminations.

With the opening of the fourth year of the War Freedom renews her vow, fortified by the aid of the "Gigantic Daughter of the West," and undaunted by the collapse of our Eastern Ally, brought about by anarchy, German gold and the fraternisation of Russian and German soldiers.

Thanks to the collapse of the Russian armies and "fraternisation," Germany has occupied Riga.