VISIT OF CANADIAN PRESSMEN - SCENES IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE [Main Title]

The visit of a delegation of prominent Canadian newsmen to England and France as guests of the Ministry of Information, July 1918.

A party in the garden of Lord Beaverbrook's home at Cherkley Court on 14th July for the journalists and some prominent Canadian politicians. Shown in portrait shot are Sir Edward Kemp, the Canadian Minister for Overseas Forces, T C Norris, the Premier of Manitoba, George Stewart, the Premier of Alberta, and W W Martin, the Premier of Saskatchewan. The journalists are shown round the Canadian Training Division at its training grounds at Bramshot and Witley, Aldershot Command. Brigadier-General H F McDonald takes the salute as one battalion marches past. In France General Sir Arthur Currie, the Canadian Corps commander, shows the men over the old Vimy Ridge battlefield. The journalists pose with Field Marshal Haig on the steps of his Château de Beaurepaire at Montreuil on 22nd July. At Hangest on 27th July they watch the Canadian Cavalry Brigade pass by in company with its commander, Brigadier-General R W Paterson. They look over Hazebruck and then go on to Ypres in a light railway train. Film taken from the train shows the remains of the Cloth Hall, which they investigate. At Verdun they are escorted by French Army guides to a high point for an overall view and are then taken into one of the deep dugouts. They leave for England from Boulogne in a camouflaged passenger ship on 29th July.

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