Mohave County miner., 1917-05-12
JOFFRE LAYS A WREATH ON
 GRANT TOMB
Hero of the Marne Rever- ently Pays Tribute to Great American Soldier; Viviani Says France Will Keep on Fighting.

NEW YORK, May 1O.-Three dram atic events which will become historic in the annals of New York marked the activieies of the French war mission here today. In their chronological or der they were:
 The address of Rene Viviani, vice president of the council of ministers and head of the mission, at luncheon of the Merchants Association, when he declared France never would cease fighting until Alsace and Lorraine were restored to her, and when he pro- claimed that the Stars and Stripes would never attain their full signifi- canoe until they. fioated from the trenches of Europe;
 The placing by Marshal Joffre of a weath upon the sarcophagus of Gen eral Grant; and
 The reception to the French resi- dents of the city at the public library tonight, when Joffre, Viviani and their colleagues greeted their compatriots, including several hundred bluejackets from French warships.
 Spectacle At Grants Tomb
 The spectacle which appealed most to the popular imagination was that enacted at Grants tomb. There was an impressive stiffness among the many thousands of spectators as Mar shal Joffre alghted from his automo- bile and walked slowly along the wide pavement leading to the tomb. The memorable words of the man whose ashes have long reposed within, carv- ed in the granite above the tomb, seemed once again to echo their sol emn words:
 ''Let us have peace"
 That this thought, all possibly re- mote of achievement, was in the mind of the gallant French soldier, whose fulness of heart has so endeared him to his own men that they revere him as father, was evidenced by the tears that glistened in his kind eyes.
 Here, if ever in the nations great i bustling metropolis, silence was more truly expressive than words. Here also a tribute of one of the worlds greatest heroes to the memory of an- other was unmistakably genuine and sincere.
 People Appreciate Significance
 The thousands who had ceased in i their daily duties to honor the victor | of the Marne and his colleagues ap- parently realized the significance of the moment. Where there had been a veritable canopy of small flags flut- tering above them, now were barred i heals. Where there had been a re- markable manifestation of a great | city's joy in welcoming the living, now there was sorrow for the dead. Jof-f fire, the soldier; Viviani, the states | man; Chocheprat, the admiral; de Chambrun, the nobleman, descendent | of Lafayette, all were visibly affected. |
 Passing into the dimly lighted TO- tunda of the tomb, Marshal Joffre doff- | ed his cap and advanced silently to- ward the stairway leading to the sar- cophagus. He clambered over the | stone balustrade, mounted a step-lad- der, and, with one hand resting on the l huge coffin of General Grant, placed l there his other hand the evergreen | wreath with the Tri-Color entwining | it; then, standing erect, he saluted, while the hundred or more others who | had been permitted to enter the tomb | looked on, with heads uncovered, from the balustrade above.
 Then followed a review of the Sev- enth regiment, New York National | Guards, in front of the tomb, after which the visitors were taken through | Riverside drive to the Joan of Arc statue, where brief stop was made. A wreath of white laurel was handed | to Marshal Joffre and he placed it rev erently at the base of the statue, while | the crowd stood silent.