Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-05
Great Crowds Gather to See
Battalion of PerShing's Ex-
peditionary Soldiers in First
Official Review.
STREETS ARE BLOCKED
BY JAMMED HUMANITY
Enthusiasm Reaches Highest
Point When Pershing, Poin-
care and Joffre Review
American Troops.

Paris, July ALI France celebrat-
ed the Fourth Of July. Paris turned
out a crowd that no American city
ever surpassed for size, enthusiasm
and profusion of Stars and Stripes.
A battalion of the first American
expeditionary force, about to leave
for training behind the battle front,
had it's first official review in
France and was the center of the cell
ebration.
Everywhere the American flag was
flying from public buildings. hotels
and residences, and from automobiles,
cabs and carts. Horses brides and
the lapels of pedestrians carried
them.
The crowds began to gather early
at vantage points. Rue de Varenne
was choked long before o'clock this
morning when the republican guards
band executed a field reveille under
General Pershing's windows and all
routes toward the 1nvalides were
thronged even before Pershing's men
turned out.
See Trophies of War.
About the court of honor, where
the Americans were drawn up with
detachment of French territorials.
the buildings were .jammed with
crowded humanity to the roofs. All
around the khaki-clad men from the
United States were trophies and
souvenirs of war--German cannon.
airplanes. machine guns and many
appliances for burning and suffocat-
ing gas. Behind them In the chapel.
separating the court Of honor from
Napoleon's tomb, were German bat
tie flags, trophies of the Marne and
Alsace behind Prussian banners OF
1870.
There in the chapel before the
tomb. of Napoleon, General Pershing
received American flags and banners
from the hands of President Poin-
care. Almost the entire history of
the struggles of the French against
the Germans looked down upon the
scene from paintings portraying he-
roic incidents in French battles from
Charlemagne to Napoleon. There was
a sharp contrast between the khaki
and plain wide-brimmed hats of Per-
shing's men and the gay dress of
D'Artagnans plumed musketeers and
Napoleon's grenadiers.
Crowd Waits Three Hours.
The enthusiasm of the vast crowd
reached it's highest pitch when Gem
eral Pershing. escorted by President
Poincare. Marshal Joffre and other
high French dignitaries passed along.
reviewing the lines of Americans
drawn up in square formations.
Cheering broke out anew when the
American band struck UP the Mar
seillaise and again when the French
band played "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" and Pershing received the flags
from the president.
"Vive les Americans: vive Per-
shing; vive les Etas Unis," shouted
over and over by the crowd greeted
the American standard bearers as
they advanced.
The crowd that had waited three
hours to witness the ceremony that
was over in fifteen minutes. surged
toward the exit cheering frantically
after the departing Americans and
trying to break through Gordon of
police troops. Outside greater
crowd that covered the entire espIa-
made of the Invalides took UP the
cheers as Pershing's men marched
away.
Few Get Glimpse OF Parade.
The crowd in the court of honor
tried to follow the soldiers out. The
throng outside was so dense and the
exits so small that 1t was half an hour
before the people could get out. The
Cours de la Refine from Alexander
bridge to the Place de la Concorde
was black with people, all of whom
seemed to want to rush up to the
men and embrace them as they
by.
When the last man had passed.
great crowds surged from both sides
to the middle of the street, breaking
through the police military guards
and blocking traffic for long time
behind the marching column.
More people were massed in the
1uilleries Gardens than on the Espla-
made des Invalides. Few of them
could get glimpse of the parade.
but all Joined In tremendous
outburst of cheering when music
from the republican guard band an
noupced the approach of the troops
and the cheers did not diminish in
volume until the last man in line had
from view in the gardens
down the Rue de Rivoli