17 JUNE 1916, Page 3

General Joffre, M. Briand, and several French Ministers have visited

London during the past week. An Allied War Council was held on Friday week. On the same day the visitors were received by the King at Buckingham Palace. The French Prime Minister and General Joffre were greeted enthusiastically whenever they were seen in the streets. General Joffre reminled an American correspondent that Lincoln was urged in the Civil War to make an inconclusive peace, but "his motto was the same as ours, Jus2u'au bout.' "