The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-11
OF PEACE
IS RESTORATION
OF PROVINCES
France Fighting to Regain
Alsace-Lorraine Says
Vivian.
OLD GLORY MUST BE
SEEN OVER TRENCHES
French Visitors Stir New
York To Tremendous En-.
thusiasm
fRv Associated Pressl

New York, May 11.-Three dramatic
events which will become historic
in the annals of New York marked
the activities of the French war mis-
sion here. In their chronological order
they were:
The address of Rene Viviani, vice
president of the council of ministers
and head of the mission, at a luncheon
of the Merchants association, when he
declared France never would cease
fighting until Alsace and Lorraine
were restored to her, and when he
proclaimed that the stars and stripes
never would attain their full signifi-
canoe until they f1oated from the
trenches of Europe.
The placing by Marshal Joffre Of a
wreath upon the sarcophagus Of Gen
eral Grant.
The reception to the French resi-
dents of the city at the public library
when Joffre, Viviani and their col
leagues greeted their compatriots in
Guiding several hundred blue Jackets
from French warships.
At Grants Tomb.
The spectacle which appealed most
to the popular imagination was that
enacted at Grants tomb.
Here silence was more truly express
sive than words. Here also was a trib-
ute of one of the worlds great heroes
to the memory of another, which was
Enthusiastically genuine and sincere.
The thousands who had gathered to
honor the victor of the Marine and his
colleagues, apparently realized the sig
nificance of the moment.
Where there had been a veritable
canopy of small flags fiuttering above
them, now were barred heads.
Joffre, the soldier; Viviani, the
statesman; Chocheprat, the admiral;
II
ant of Lafayette, all were visibly af-
fected.
Passing into the dimly lighted ro-
tunda of the tomb, Marshal Joffre
doffed his cap and advanced silently
toward the stairway leading to the
sarcophagus. He mounted a steplad-
der and, with one hand resting on the
huge coffin of General Grant, placed
there with his other hand the ever
green wreath, with the tri-color en-
twining it, then standing erect, he sa-
luted.
Then following review of the Sew
enth regiment, New York national
guard, in front of the tomb, after
which the visitors were taken through
Riverside drive to the Joan of Arc
statue where a brief stop was made.
All along the route, were great throngs
Of men, women and children, cheering
the city's guests.
At the Joan of Arc statue, a delega-
ton from the Daughters of the Ameri-
can revolution presented Marshal Jof-
FIRE with check for $4,000 francs to be
used at his discretion for charitable
purposes. sa .-a@.
What France Fights For.
Representative businessmen greeted
the members of the commission with
wild enthusiasm at a luncheon of the
Merchants association in the after
noon. They. heard the former premier
of France proclaim in a notable speech
that France never would make peace
until Alsace and Lorraine had been
restored to her.
Two thousand of the leading men in
the industrial life of the metropolis
cast aside decorum and joined in fire.
quent outbursts OF cheering for the
hero of the Marine, and the head of the
war mission.
"It is not enough that the French
flags shall float from the decorations
of your Streets" Mr.. Viviani said. eft
is not enough that the American flag
shall float in Paris.
1T is necessary that the American
flag shall be carried to the firing line
to be with that of France and Great
Britain, whose soldiers are fighting to-
gether shoulder to shoulder, to the ex-
IRENE limit of human endurance.
81 say to you that the American
flag, which already flies alongside the
French flag on the flying machines
of the Lafayette squadrilla will soon,
we hope, be flying in the trenches
where the British and French flags
fly.
1--WE will never make peace until we