Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-11
Harrisburg Honored

stories of their deeds to wide-eyed
audiences.
Harrisburg Honored
The men came here from Ohio,
and are on their way to New York.
Harrisburg is the only Pennsylvania
city in which the famous legion
aires made a stop. And Harrisburg
took advantage of that fact. All day
khaki clad soldiers of the French
Republic were feted and feasted and
made to feel that the best in Harris
/ burg was none too good for them. j.
| II. Wallazz and c. Floyd Hopkins
worked like Trogans to entertain
them.
The legionaires arrived at 9.15,
and assembled in front of the station
for their march to Liberty Loan
| headquarters. Clad in khaki, with
steel helmets, great coats buttoned
back to allow free stride, huge
rifles with murderous looking bay
onets, and complete equipment, the
company of legionaires made a grim,
war-like appearance as it marched
down Market street, led by the of
ficers in the resplendent trappings
; of France.
A Living Symbol
AS the little company of French
men marched, hundreds along the
| sidewalk saw in their powerful
swing, fierce glances, myriad medals
and stripes of wounds, honors and
years of service, the living symbol
| of the spirit of France, unquench-
! able, unbreakable. Among these men
were those who stood at Verdun
when blood ran like water and said,
They shall not pass!" to the Ger
man hordes who broke great waves
u of divisions tho Erpnnh nf
heroes.
All these men have seen four
years of the bloodiest battles of the
war. All over Flanders, Verdun,
Picardy. Alsace-Lorraine, Belgium
and France, they have fought the
Germans, fought them and beaten
them, until now, the German lines
falter and break at the sight of the
insignia of the Legionaire.
Greeted by Hundreds
The equipment of the soldiers
was left at the Liberty Loan head
quarters while they went to break
fast. The officers ate at the Harris
burg Club, and the men were taken
to Davenport's restaurant, with in
structions to "fill up" One soldier
was left to guard the equipment.
Steel helmets were discarded for
caps similar to American overseas
caps. After their breakfast, the men
were loaded into automobiles and
taken to the Harrisburg Pipe and
Pipe Bending Works to see how
munitions are made. 1t is a treat
they have looked forward to since
landing in America, they said
| Headquarters were at the Y. M.
{. A, and there the soldiers gather
cred, and were greeted by hundreds
| of Harrisburg citizens. Chief among
the topics of conversation was the
German peace overture. Twirling
their fierce moustaches vigorously.
and making furious grimaces with
their eyebrows, the Frenchmen de-
clared peace could not come until
Marshal Foch and Mr.. Wilson die
, tate the terms"
Tells of Atrocities
Asked If he had seen any German
atrocities, blue-eyed Legionaire
thrust his bayonet into the floor
with a savage lunge.
| ''Th"t" he said, II have seen them
do to - French women. And thus
as he made passes at his hands, ''I
have seen them cut off the hands of
French children
wait, though" he said, until
| we get two, three, four million
Americans over there. The wal
will end in six months"
He declared the Spanish influenza
is "bad. bad" He had it and passed
his hand over his weak back with a
rueful grimace. One Legionaire died