Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-11-22
PERSHINC GREETED
BY JOYFUL PARIS
American Commander Almost
Mobbed by WorShiping
Crowd in Street.
OUTBREAK IS SPONTANEOUS
Girl Starts Demonstration When She
Recognizes Yanks' Leader
Sitting in Passing
Automobile.

Automoblle.
Paris.-One of the widest demon
STATIONS ever seen in Paris occurred
when Gen. John ]. Pershing com
mander of the American expeditionary
forces, made his appearance in an au-
tomobile on the streets of Paris The
crowds went wild when they caught
a glimpse Of the American leader, and
as the worl spread thousands of per-
sous poured from every direction into
Tue Place de Ia ConcVTde through
which General PerShing vas passing
when he was recognized by passers by.
1t was estimated that within short
time there were half million people
in the cheering mob that struggled for
a glimpse of the American general.
The general was out for short
drive and had come up the Rue Rivoh.
His car was proceeding at snaiI's
pace before it was recognized by the
frenzied street crowds.
As General pershing's face. with the
famous smile, showed through the
door, French girl with the flags of
half dozen nations twined about her
head screamed. General Pershing p
The cry was t8ken up insanity and
passed over the seethlIg nmlhtudes. If
there We're any gendarmes about they
We're swallowed up in the enormous
mob. In an instant men and women
Went ms aud screamed his name, and
all tried to reach the car.
Men picked up women and held them
on their shoulders that they might get
a look at the general. The mob surged
toward the car in another wave.
Shakes Hands OF Children.
General Pershing amidst the danger
was enjoying 1t greatly. Instead of clos
ing the window and urging the driver
10 get out before they We're crushed to
death, he let the window down full
length, laughed heartily, and thrust his
hand out of the door to shake the hand
of little French child whose proud
father lifted her above the heads of
the mob.
Children climbed on the tonneau and
Skinned up the back of the limousine
and frantically lcaped over the strug-
Cling mass and shot their hands In at
the window. General Pershing con
tinued laughing and tried to shake as
many hands as could be thrust through
the window.
"Pershing! Pershing!" beloved the
mob, and the name rang from the
Seine to the Rue Royale, up the
Champs Elysees and through the
Tuileries gardens.
Efforts to Clear Way Fail.
French officers who had been caught
up in the human maelstrom saluted
and then endeavored to have the mob
give way. As if by common impulse
the masses seemed to understand that
the great American general was in
danger, and with a craning of heads
and the scrclms of women and chill
dren slight rift was made directly
ahead of the car. Then by less than
a snail's pace the car with frantic
snorts edged along, inch by inch.
The cheering was indescribable.
Along the boulevards the name of Per
shing was taken up by thousands who
probably did not know that Pershing
was in their midst, and at one moment
1t seemed that all Paris was shouting.
BY this time the inside of P&rshing's
car resembled a flag shop. The chill
iren who were raised over the heads
IF the frantic populace tossed small
flags and flowers through the window
and the grownups tore the insignia |
from their coats and tossed it in. Cen |
eral Pershing was laughing hard and |
waving his hand back at the children, |
but still the flag and floral offerings |
poured in until he was half buried be- |
meath the bunting, flags, buttons. in
sigma, and crushed blossoms.
Moves Inch by Inch.
Inch by inch the car moved and then |
halted several minutes as the mob |
surged back against 1t. It was the car
be had used over the battlefield of |
France and was built for rough usage,
Else II seems 1t must have crushed like |
IN egg shell.
Finally the car edged out of the /
Place de la Concorde into the Champs
Elysees. but still the mob, with hats
)ff. arms in air. ard mouths wide open.
like mac surged about him.
L was several minutes more before the
,ar could be extricated and sem
1lance of a road made.
Even then, as the car got away up
he great avenue toward the Arc de
rriomph, thousands ran after it. All
Paris seemed to be rumbling with a
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