New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-15
FRANCE PLEDGES
FREEDOM'SC CAUSE
ON BASTILE DAY
Poincare Says War Must
Go On Until Future
Is Made Safe.
INVALIDES TOMB
FOR DE Isle
President and Cabinet Follow
Coffin of the Author OF
the "MarseillaiSe."
fBy Cabl. 10 The Tribune

the "MarseillaiSe.
fBy Gable 10 The Tribune
Paris, July 14.-With a new signin
canoe France celebrated "Bastile Day
to-day and consecrated herself agar
10 the cause Of liberty
With impressive ceremony the bod
OF Captain Claude Joseph Rouget d.
Isle. whose "Marseilaise" hundred
wears ago stirred the passion Of free
dom. was placed in the Hotel des In
valides.
Under a cloudy, mackerel sky thou
sands stood with heads uncovered a.
the coffin, on gun carriage OF th'
Revolutionary period, passed under thu
Arc de Triomphe, down the Avenue de-
Champs Elysees, across the Alexander
Bridge to the Esplanade.
At the Arc de Triomphe were gath
cred more than 10000 persons, mostly
women. children and elderly men, wher
over the stiffness burst the ringing
voice of a twentieth century Camille
Desmoulins. shouting:
"Frenchmen, to-day there is another
Bastile to demolish-Prussian mill
tarism- and with our Allies it is our
task"
Poincare Behind Gun Carriage.
As the funeral cortege, behind which
walked President Poincare, all the
members OF the Cabinet, the presi-
dents Of the Senate and the Chamber
and the highest officials Of the govern
ment. passed. manned soldiers and
bronzed reservists, home on leave
saluted the bier and the President IN
solemn silence.
Dense crowds packed the pavements
and in the hospitals in the hotels along
the Avenue des Champs Elysees every
balcony and window was filled with
wounded men.
There were no cheers until the pro
cession passed the Grand Palais, when
the Republican Guards band struck W
the "Narseillaise." give la France.
and give parmee!" shouted the crowds
in a burst of enthusiasm.
As the band played and the corteg'
halted, hundreds Of pigeons, dlsturoeC
by the tumut, circled aloft, while
above them six military acceptance
lowered as a protection against am
possible attacks by hostile aircraft.
Song a Cry 20 Freedom.
wherever it resounds," said Presi
dent Poincare. "'The Marseillaise
evokes the idea Of sovereign natioT
that has a passion for independence
and whose sons, all of them, prefer de
/ liberate death TO servitude.
"a HYMN like that was needed 20 ir
! terpret in a war like this the generous
/ thought of France. Once more th'
spirit Of domination menaces the I'D
erty of the people"
President Poincare rapidly sketcheC
+ the events in Europe leading up to mi
war, finding everywhere a deliberate
purpose of Germany and Austria-Hun
gary "to provoke war for their owl
objects, as history will show"
"Posterity will learn with stupefac
ton" President Poincare continued
that one day the German Ambassador
after vainly seeking to have hlmsel
insulted publicly by the populace o.
Paris. presented without smiling as
cause for war, fable imagined II
Wilhelmstrasse that French aviators
without any one perceiying them, ha'
gone 70 throw bombs on Nuremberg. ~
Sword Cannot Be Put Back.
The President alluded to solemn
treaties being torn up, TO the barbar
Gus terrorism Of -combatants anC
to science dishonored in the service o
savagery. Turning 70 the members o
the French Cabinet, he said:
you Intercepted your conscience II
serenity, knowing that at no momen
have we neglected a word or act whlef
could serve 10 dissipate this war. W.
have been innocent of a most bruta
aggression, methodically premedltated
but since We were forced 10 draw tn,
sword we have no right to put 1t bach
in the scabbard until we shall have vim
dicated the dead, and until common
victory of the Allies shall permit ii
to repair the ruins and prevent pc
riodic return of the provocatlons
What would tomorrow be If lame
peace should ever rest upon the debris
of our cities ?"
The President said that France un
der such a peace would be at The mercy
OF her triumphant rivals. and added:
"Thctc is no soldier, no citizen anC
no woman Of France but understand.
clearly that the whole future Of the
race. and not only our honor but on
very existence, depends upon the heav!
hours Of this memorable war.
1--WE have willed to win We have
the certainty Of winning! We have a:
much confidence in our strength and II
that Of our allies as in our right
"Noi No! Let our enemies not de
ceive themselves! II is not sign o.
precarious peace or a disquietinl
fugitive truce between one shortened
war and another one more terrible; i
Is not to remain exposed tomorrow e
new attacks and mortal perils tha'
France rose in ardent enthusiasm e
the manly accents Of the 'Marseillaise.
Already the day Of glory for which The
'Marzc:llaise' is celebrated illumine'
the horizon"