Last week Mr. Asquith spent four days at Sir John
French's Headquarters. During his visit he conversed for half an hour with General Joffre, General Pooh, and M. Millerand. He informally inspected a brigade which had just come down after four months in the trenches, and, according to the account in the Times, happily remarked on the repre- sentative character of the brigade, which was composed of troops from the North, South, East, and West of Great Britain. Mr. Asquith seems to have been particularly im- pressed by Colonel Bate's hospital for convalescents, slightly wounded. men, and men suffering from strain and exhaustion. He arrived at the same moment as a batch of ambulances, and the men brought in them were in warm baths within ten minutes. From this hospital men are returned to the firing line in the shortest possible time. Wherever Mr. Asquith went he wan received with pleasure and enthusiasm, and he thoroughly fell in with the spirit of the men who showed him in improvised ways that he was welcome.
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