Speaking, too, of the cemeteries, where general and private rest side by side beneath the same simple stones, equal in the honour of their death for duty's sake, he agreed that this was the only possible way. [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE THE KING MEETING MARSHAL FOCH] [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE SALUTING THE FRENCH COLOUR PARTY] [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE SALUTING THE FRENCH COLOUR PARTY] [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE THE FRENCH GUARD OF HONOUR] [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE THE KING AND MARSHAL FOCH] [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE "_I have come to lay a wreath in homage on the tombs of French heroes who have fallen for their country_"] [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE THE SILENCE AND THE SALUTE TO THE DEAD] [Illustration: NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE THE BROW OF THE HILL OVERLOOKING THE RIDGE THE KING WITH MARSHAL FOCH, GENERAL WEYGAND AND FIELD-MARSHAL EARL HAIG] [Illustration: INSPECTION OF GARDENERS] [Illustration: FORCEVILLE CEMETERY] [Illustration: FORCEVILLE] [Illustration: FORCEVILLE THE KING SPEAKING TO THE MAYOR] [Illustration: LOUVENCOURT] [Illustration] [Illustration: LOUVENCOURT A TRAVELLING GARDENING PARTY] [Illustration: PICQUIGNY WHERE A NUMBER OF AUSTRALIANS LIE] [Illustration: CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY THE KING TALKING TO TWO BEREAVED AUSTRALIAN RELATIVES] III: "_It was bare and hilly ground where once the bread-corn grew._" In the evening of May 11 the King passed from Belgium into France on his way to Vimy, which had been chosen as the resting-place for the night. As the train arrived at Hazebrouck, the first stop after crossing the frontier, the Prefect of the Nord, together with the Maire of Hazebrouck, received His Majesty. The Maire (M. l'Abbé Lemire) is a figure known to every soldier who passed through Hazebrouck during the war; not only had he been a constant friend to all ranks of the British Army, but his courageous and imperturbable control of his townspeople during the early days of 1914 will always be remembered in the history of the war.