Written by Father Pierre Lhande, read by Father Martindale

The French priest whose address Father Martindale - himself one of the most successful of broadcast preachers - will read this afternoon is one of the most interesting characters in modern Paris. A Basque by birth, he has since the War devoted himself to work in a Paris that had hardly been touched before. Not the Paris-Soleil of magasins and restaurants, cafes and music-halls, that visitors and the average Parisian know; but the Paris-Noir outside the fortifications, known to the police as the abode of misery and crime and the haunt of the survivors of the Apaches, and the outer ring of Paris-Rouge, the post-war hovels where paganism and revolution reign.