The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-14
STAIN OF 1870
4 IS WIPED OUT.
Chains of Magnificent Arc de
Triomphe Loosed for
n Heroes.
REVIEWED BY POINCAIRE
Pershing, Foch, Haig, Petain,
Diaz, Castlenau, Great
A. Chiefs in Parade.
(By Robert j. Prew.)

(By Robert j. Prew)
Paris July Al. n. S)-Twenty
thousand allied soldiers swung across
Paris eastward today before the eyes
of more than a million spectators
who saw the great victory parade.
Leading them on horseback was
Marshal Foch, generalissimo and di-
recting genius of the allied sue
cesses on the field of battle. Beside
him rode Marshal Joffre, hero OF the
first battle of the Marine, and riding
at the. heads of the various contin-
gents came Gems. Pershing, Haig,
Petain. Diaz, Castelnau and other
great chiefs
The troops marched in alphabetical
order, which brought the Americans,
led by Gen. Pershing, Immediately
behind Foch and Joffre.
For two hours they swung through
double living wall four miles long
with the cheers rising in one unend-
\ in- roar. The greatest moment or
A the cay came when Foch and Jofre
drove their horses under the mag
nificent Arc de Triomphe, followed
by the soldiers of liberty. Since
4 Frances defeat in 1870 the arch OF
the finest architectural monument TO
Napoleon's victories had been barred
chains. In previous celebrations
since the armistice, kings and princes
had all passed around the arch, but
today the stain of 1870 was wiped
out; the chains were flung down ana
the victorious allied troops marched
triumphantly beneath the towering
structure while a solid mass OF
people filling the stands around the
Place de LEtoile broke into storms
Of cheering.
Thousands Crowd Thoroughfares.
II is impossible to estimate the
number of people along the line OF
march, but Paris papers today said
that several million saw or tried TO
see the spectacle. Representatives
of nearly every civilized people
cheered themselves hoarse at the
passing war heroes. A riot OF over
towering emotion attended the scene,
in which full -throated French ap-
r. use was the predominant note.
It in the unprecedentedly great
mass of people lining the route ana
packing the overlooking windows
and balconies there were many NOV
4 ing manifestations OF most bitter
srief From these windows bereaved
parents and children wept at the
thought that kindier fate wouiu
have allowed their kin to snare IN
this unparalleled spectacle ana not,
as Clemenceau eloquently said in the
chamber of deputies. "have laid them
down in a shroud of glory in the
shades of battle" But the pathos or
the scene was dimmed by the most
wonderful demonstration OF re1olc"
ing ever seen in the French capital:
TODAY 1t is as though the people OF
the earth were united in welcoming
n millennium. What, in fact Is nap
pening in Paris today is that tne
greatest men of Europe are Joining
tbo bumhlest In a feverish apotheosis
of peace.
Tribute to Dead.
BEFORE the rejoicings began, France
Maid tribute to her more than NIL
ion and a half of dead last night IN
the most mournful ceremony IN the
history of the republic. A dea.h
vigil" took place beneath the Arc de
Triomphe, where huge tomb OF war
was built on a raised platform sprih-
kled with the soil of many pattle
fields. A mammoth plaster fgure OF
,Ictnrv stood at each Of the four
corners All night picket OF honoI
stood watch with arms reversed
while a multitude of people, thou
sands weeping, filed beneath the
arch before the sepulchral monulnenV
in silent homage to the fallen heroes
The candelabra were lighted at night
fall and cast Pickering streams OF
light upon the people streaming sol
EMMY past the tomb into the gloom
of the vast arch.
Early this morning the sepulchre
was removed to corner OF the
place de LEtoile to allow the troops
10 march beneath the arch
The route OF the march from the
Porte Maillot to the Place de la Ke-
publiuue was a scene OF BaDylonlan
splendor. At Port Maillot, through
which the allied armies made thelr
official entry into the city, stood
great triumphal arch.
Along the Avenue de la Granoe
Armee and then along the Cnann5o
i Elysees to the Place de la Concorue
we're festoons of gilded bunting
which swung from Venetian masts
Is placed at thirty-foot intervals
Adjoining the masts were luminous
globes, flower baskets, clusters Oh
allied flags and the coats of arms OF
French cities.
Displayed on pyramidal columns
at frequent intervals were tropnles
NJ war, the steel helmets, rifes'
haversacks and grenades mingling
with the garlands of flowers, the
whole warlike display in each IN
stance being surmounted by a Gaiiic
cock. emblem of French military
valor.
The Arc de Triomphe stood I'M
draped in all its splendor amidst a
riot of flags and surrounded by a
mammoth grave and on the Place
de LEtoile.
THAT section of the route from the
Arc de Triomphe down the Avenue
des Champs Elysees to the Place de
Ia Concorde was officially styled
"triumphal way" and here the big
gest decorative effect was accom-
plished. Midway on the spacious
Rond Point des Champs Elysees pas
reliefs were erected on affairs dedi-
Gated to the martyred cities of Yer
dun, Scissors. Rheims and Arras.
Throughout the day clouds OF vapor,
pumped up by electricity, flowed out
from votive urns browning these al
tars.
Here by special wish of Premier
Clemenceau, captured German guns
were heaped up pell-mell with the
figure of VICTORIOUS Gallo COCK
perched above each heap.
Another plaster triumphal arch stood
on the Place de La Concorde at the en-
trance to the Tuilleries gardens. II
TO our glorious armies" while upon
the columns were inscribed the names
OF prominent generals.
The whole length of the Avenue Des
Champs Elysees was a row Of stands.
Other giant stands were erected on