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Show lions., "nearly all hard workers who have proved their loyalty to the mother country bv fighting bravely for her in the present war." FRANCE TO ARISE ' STRONGER FROM WAR, ENVOY SAYS MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6. France has "gone back to work with a spirit of virile courage, the spirit that brought recuperation so quickly after the war of 1870 and that paid an enormous debt so quickly as to gain the admiration of the world," according to Maurice Case-nave, Case-nave, minister plenipotentiary and director di-rector general of the French public ser-vioes, ser-vioes, in an address here today at the celebration of the anniversaries' of Lafayette and the first battle of the Marne. Mr. Casenave, who spoke at the City club, said that the false legend of "a frivolous and corrupt France," which Marshal Joffre had destroyed by the victory of the Marne, had been succeeded suc-ceeded by an equally false legend, advanced ad-vanced by her enemies, that France was bled white, beyond the hope of resuscitation. resusci-tation. He declared the progress made in his country even since the armistice was a pjoof that France would arise from her present afflictions greater and stronger than ev,er. A rosy picture of French prosperity, with increased outputs, of metals, textiles, tex-tiles, coal, potash and farm products, was drawn by the speaker. He also said that France's colonies, often ignored, ig-nored, were larger than the whole of the L'nited States, including Alaska, the PhilipDines, Porto Kico and other possessions; pos-sessions; that they w7re rich in mineral and agricultural wealth and possessed a population of moie than fifty mil- |