Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-19
AMERICANS LEAD THE |.
PARADE WITH OVER
5000 SOLDIERS
City Gaily Decorated With
Colors Of the Allied
Nations. !
Choir of Over TO- 600 Persons
Will Sing During This
Evening. .

London, July l9.-N1neteen thou~
sand Allied soldiers-picked men from
famous combat divisions, the names
of which are written large on the
pages of history of the world war
marched through London's streets to-
day in celebration of the return Of
peace. The line of parade was moro
than six miles in length.
King George with other members Of
the royal family, army and navy ofn-
GERS and leaders of both houses OF
parliament stood on the steps of the
Victoria memorial, in front of Buck
inghan palace, to receive the sa1utes
Of the warriors.
Big Reception.
A magnificent reception was given
the marching hosts. The streets were
bright with Allied colors. Eager spec
tators jammed every place of vantage,
even the roofs being black with cheer.
ing thousands. Huge grandstands ac-
commodating thousands were erected
ing made to arrange that every sol-
dier. home on leave from France
should see the procession. Among
those who witnessed the parade from
these stands were four Thousand
widows, mothers and children of od1-
GERS and men killed during the war
The nineteen thousand paraders
camped at Kensington gardens yesteF-
day and last night. They, were drawn
from the British, American, French,
Italian. Belgian, japanese, Polish,
Rumanian. Portuguese. Serbian,
Siamese and Czecho-Slovakan armies
In the line of march the contingeDkS
were arranged in alphabetical order
the Americans leading the parade.
The Americans, led by General John
J. Pershing, marched in three bat
!talionsi Of 80 emeeEs. and Usen
sssh eastnn Rea III q iins .4s Z oi.,ess
France was represented by 19Os ,menl
and Italy by 335. There we're ave- Of
'6cers and SO, men for each OF the 9th.
er Allied nations. 4 {
Behind the Allied section came vics
Admirals Beatty and Keyes and 9TH
er high officers Of the grand neet with
a naval contingent of 4 1000 men. Then
came 1000 men from the merchant
marine and 500 women from vsrhHs
war services. K
5000 British In Ilne.
Next came Field Marshal Haig as,d
his staff, leading 5000 British troops
| of every branch Of the service. Major
General Salmond led the royal air
force contingent. All the domtnions
had forces in line. 1t had been fear
ed that Canada would not be repre-
sented because so few Canadian
troops were left. in London. At the
last moment. however. a detachment
was collected and it took part in tho
parade.
Following the parade, London
which enjoyed a special business holi-
day, gave itself up to merrymakinE.
The authorities provided four huge
areas for dancing on Hyde Green and
Regents Park
Elsewhere in the city, military
bands gave concerts and pa@eants ard
!, scenes from Shakespeare were given
by theatrical clubs.
Tonight the imperial choir win ap-
pear in a peace and Thanksgiving per-
formance in Hyde Park. This organf-
zation numbers more than l0,0ot
singers. The public will be provided
! with the words of songs to be sung
and will be asked to join IN the patri-
otic numbers Fireworks VIII end the
days festivities