Arizona republican., 1917-07-05
ALL FRANCE CELEBRATES THE FOURTH
Republican A. P. Leased Wire1


 PARIS, July An France cele- brated the Fourth of July. Paris turned out crowd that no American city ever surpassed for size, enthusiasm and pro- fusion of stars and stripes.
 A battalion of the First American ex- peditionary force about to leave for the training behind the battle front had it's first official review in France and was the center of the celebration.
 Everywhere the American flag was flying from public buildings, hotels and residences, and from automobiles, cabs and carts. Horses brides and the la pels of pedestrians carried them.
 The crowds began to gather early at ' vantage points Rue de Varenne was choked long before eight o'clock this morning when the republican guards hand executed a field reveille under General Pershing's windows and all routes toward the Invalides were thronged even before Pershing's men turned out
 About the court of honor where the Americans were drawn up with a de- tachment of French territorials the buildings overflowed with crowded hu- manity to the roofs. All around the khaki clad men from the United States were trophies and souvenirs of war German cannon, aeroplanes, machine guns and many appliances for burning suffocating gas. Pehind them in the chapel separating the court of honor from Napoleon's tomb were German battle flags, trophies of the MArne and Alsace behind Prussian banners of 1870.
 There is the chapel before the tomb of Napoleon, General Pershing received American flags and banners from the hands of President Poincare. Almost the entire history of the struggles o, the French against the Germans looked down upon the scene from paintings portraying heroic incidents in French battles from Charlemagne to Napoleon There was a sharp contrast between the khaki and plain wide brimmed hats of Pershings men and the gay dresses of D'Artagnan's plumed musketeers and Napoleon's grenadiers
 The enthusiasm of the vast crOWC reached it's height when General Persh- ing. escorted by President Poincare Marshal Joffre, and other high French digniaries passed along reviewing the lines of Americans drawn up in square formations. Cheering broke out anew when the American band struck up the Marseiliaise and again when the French band played the Star Spangled Banner" and Pershing received the flags from the president
 "Five Les Americans: Tive Persh- ing; Tive Les Etats Unis." shouted over and over hv the crowd greeted the American standard bearers as they ad- vanced.
 The crowd that had waited three hours to witness the ceremony that -J the exit cheering frantically after the departing Americans and trying to break through a cordon of police troors Outside greater crowd that covered the entire esplanade of the In- valides took up the cheers as Persh- ing's men marched away.
 The crowd in the court of honor tried to follow the soldiers but the throng outside was so dense and the exits so small that it was half an hour before the people could get ont. The Cours De La Reine 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 marched 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 a long time behind the marching column.
 More people were massed in the Tuileries Gardens on the Esplarades 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 announced the approach of the troops and their cheering did not di- minish in volume until the last man in line had disappeared from view in the gardens down the Rue de Rivoli.