Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-09


 uontv at least were in the big de ooh,rent of American troops which created a furore in London about two ooks ago-and it is confidently be ,;oved here that there were other non from this city and section in the treat line of "sammies' who march "a in review before King George and bueen Alexandria.
 Tho Pine Bluff men known to have hoon in the regiments which marched before the British ruler are:
 Francis w. Wren, Solon o. Reynolds itt,eton Meeks, James H. Pritchard William M. Fraser, Horace G. Whyte pohert l.. Ray, Henry c. Ragar aurence I. Sexton, Felix E. Aircndall Ehs..les B. Case, Edward Mayberry, William H. Hildreth. Orville w. Proves, William H. Parker, William J. Foulter, Claude J. Staples, Norman B. rnlson. Ernest Reichen and Edward Kirchgraber.
 The Times Account.
 The following is the account of the barade of the American soldiers and {heir review by the king and queen England, as printed in the London Times more faniliarly knows as The Thunderer"
 Who passeth here? ?"-"We of the
 new Brigade
 Who come in aid-to take your place
 who fell"
 What is the countersign ?"-"That
 we have weighed
 he cost ye paid-yet come"- Pass!
 All is we'll"
 Shane Leslie. It was such a day as might have een in August, 1914, had our troops een permitted to march the streets sunlight. To their mysterious and ppointed end they stole away in the bnely darkness of night, and no voice heered them and no hand held theirs greeting or farewell. Since then, he official mind has larnt to think little differently-a little more sym athetically, perhaps. So it was given us to greet America as we might lave greeted the British soldiers, and Il our hidden pride and restrained nthusiasm burst forth yesterday and ere offered freely to the American r'diers whom we surely may also hll "ours."
 If they were not ours before, they ecame ours yesterday. We adopted hem; they became something more us than soldiers. In those hours of reat cheering sense of intimate inship was born that will outlast the gonies of war.
 It was not, in the superficial mean hg picturesque procession. But it as intensely moving, very inspiring; nd there could re no greater message cheer and consolation in time of Tar-weariness than the message in the yes and in the gait of every Ameri- aln soldier who passed through our nty yesterday. That message was We mean to see it through"
 London Makes Holiday.
 Very early in the morning people iscovered their viewpoints and wait patiently, watching the enormous rIowds that joined them. Traffic was lverted or stopped altogether. Shops ere shut and business was suspend !; And later the meeting of the war ablnet itself was adjourned so that ne prime minister and his colleagues nlght become as the people of the treets, making greetings to the men no mean to see it through" Mounted police headed the process pon. Following was the band of the lfe .Guards-and then came the americans: Londoners are not very e!ady to cheer. Theirs is the way of alent tribute. But yesterday they prgot the silly traditions of British eserve: They might have been Irish Italian in their wild enthusiasm. or, as the first Americans were seen, neefs were raised such as have never zen heard in London. Along the roadway, strewn with the e1als of roses flung by women, the mericans marched. In the distance ney looked a little like Australians. aey wore the familiar slouch hat tied l'n red cord, canvas gaiters, and they