Arizona republican., 1917-05-06
LYNCHlNC IN PHOENIX FRUSTRATED BY MILKY
Daley Rushed AwQy in AM0 Fozd by Scores Citizens Seeking Hs Le
JOFFRE IN CHICAGO
 TELLS GRAPHIC STORY
 OF BATTLE OF MARINE
Republican A. P. Leased Wire1

CRepublican A. P. Leased Wire1
 CHICAGO, May 5.-How the French army, although improperly armed and ammunitioned, met the Germans on the Marne and whipped them in 1914 was told briefly tonight by Marshal Joffre of France, in his second speech in America, before 15,000 shouting men, women and children. After the large amphitheater had been filled, a fire destroyed a S15O,000 building a block from the meeting Bremen muffled the engines and the audience was not alarmed.
 Many Workmen had been allowed a half holiday to see the famous visitors comprising the French mission, and all the addresses appealed to them. Marshal Joffre addressed his wildly cheering auditors as follows:
 Ladies and Gentlemen: I am happy to salute the city of Chicago in this assembly where all classes of society are represented This assembly re- minds me of France at the moment of the declaration of war in August, 1914 The Germans had assailed us in a brutal attack, hoping within a short time to destroy France by many bar barouS blows. The danger was caught in the act
 All the French people ran to the border. The farmers the Workmen. in fact all French people, were standing at the border. The fight was hard. but at last we were successful and stopped the enemy. The battle of the Marne stopped them completely at that time
 We were in need of munitions. We were in need of guns and rifles Then we took from the ranks of the army all the special workmen to make guns. bullets and bombs; and from that time the French army is comprised of those who fight at the front and those who make 1t possible to fight at the front. There is the army in the front and the army in the shops and factories; and It IS from the army at the fnont and the army of the shops that I bring greeting to you.
 "l bring greeting of the whole French army to the people of Chicago, and above all to the Workingmen of this city, among whom 1 am happy to find myself today. All French workmen are mobilized, and all are working heart and soul in the common cause; each IS accomplishing his duty in a vlctorlous way. l am sure that all American workmen are one in heart with their brother workmen in France and are ready, like them, to fight for me final victory of democracy
 when the marshal of France rose to speak ne was given an ovation, and despite efforts to quiet the throng. the cheering lasted several minutes. Mean while Joffre stood stiffly at salute moisture in his eyes. And when he lad completed his speech and the crowd again cheered madly. his col ieagueS of the mission embraced him and congratulated him on the speech.
 M. VlVlanl, former premier and head of the mission, looked over the great amphitheater, smiled greetings to dele sations of foreign-b born citizens of the lty who attended the meeting in cos
 lme, saluted the Boy Scouts who filled m entire balcony and made his appeal directly to the working people.
 Citizens" he said, T want for my ilrst word, coming into this great as sembly, to salute your army already under arms. 1 salute your city. rep resented by the brothers of those who tIreauy nave gone to the coast of trance, and l want to thank and sa- ute, Tn the name of the French labor ing classes all the laboring classes I see before me here today, who have qult their work to come to hear the word of France
 salute all the workmen, belonging 70 different races, who have come to tuls wonderful country America oiavs, Russians, Greeks, brothers of those who work now for the indepen- dence and emancipation of Russia, and all those who have come to present us with salutes.
 T want, in the name of France to take advantage of the opportunity which has been given me to answer one of the greatest calumnies which nave been made against us; that for lew months we have tried to put you to sleep, making you believe that the actual war was war of capital; that we were fighting to make money. Do you think if it were true all your brothers would have rushed to the front to fight for the flag? Do you think the French laboring men and all the working classes would have taken the interest in it that they did take?
 It IS not war of conquest It is not war where France and her allies wish to acquire the territory It is a war for humanity and democracy. That IS why, In answer to the call of the speakers you have heard here, belong ing to your own nation, you will stand together to enter this war to help France and her allies to fight to avenge the soldiers of the Marne, who
 (Ccntinued on Page Two)