Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-11

with residents of this district Every man, woman and child in the district is urged to attend. Beside the speak CTS music will be furnished by the Calumet and Arizona band.
 Lieutenant Perigord, a war hero who entered the service of France as a private to fight and minister to his coGntrymen at the same time, blessed the heroic boy troops before Verdun before they stayed the great hun assault in July of 1916
 Father Paul Perigord is a Roman Catholic priest and was a professor in a Roman Catholic seminary in St. Paul, Minn., when the great war broke out in 1914 The sorrows of France, his native land. made a powerful ap- peal to his patriotic nature; so he put on the uniform of the private soldier and aided Marshal Joffre in driving back the invader in the great battle of the Marne. He did this, as he him. self has remarked, mot because wanted to kill. bu tbecause l love France" He also loves truth and honor and justice and humanity. He is today in good standing in the priest hood and will continue his sacred call ing at the close of the war, if his life is spared
 His Military Experience
 His first thought, upon his return to France, was to become a chaplain in the French army. Finding no vacancy in the list of chaplains he enlisted as q private in the ranks at 4 cents a day. determined to fight and to min ister to the spiritual needs of his fel- tow soldiers at the same time. He has performed both functions most ad- mirably.
 He did not seek a commission as he believes that "a private's is the high est rank in the army" one soon came to him, however. It was in the Cham pagne district. His company was or dered to receive the attack of the German Imperial guard. All of tho officers. with the exception of the cap tain. were killed in the early part of the hattie. Later, when the captain was mortally wounded, he gave his sword to Private Perigord with in structions to lead them. He did so, the Imperial guard was repulsed, the nriyate was made a lieutenant and told fo retain the sword of his dead cap | tain.
 The German crown prince had prom ised his father, the emporer, that ne would take Verdun on July IA, 19l6- the Independence day of the trench | Republic. His first assault was met by 5000 French boys who had knelt to receive the blessing of Father Perl gord before entering upon this ter rible task. Taps were sounded for 4.5oO of them, but Verdun still stands.
 His Honors of War
 Lieutenant Perigord wears upon hls uniform the iron cross O. war con- terred upon him by Marshal Joffre for conspicuous personal bravery; also ave stars conferred for the same req son. as the cross can be conferred hui once. Three bars indicate that he was wounded three times in battTe.
 Lieutenant Perigord has been re- leased by the high commission of the | French republic to the speaking d1Vi- sion of the committee on public infor- nation for the purpose of carrying his gospel of patriotism to the people or the United States. His message, couched in simple eloquence and based upon actual experience, is given with a fixed determination and yet with an unbounded Christian sympathy, in which the German people are included.
 Like Lafayette, he constitutes strong bond of sympathy between two of the great republics Of the world. He considers, by the way, General Persn- ings remark at the tomb of Lafayette the greatest speech of the war. The American general, in placing a wreath upon the tomb of the French patriot, bent over in reverence and whispered, Lafayette, we are here"