The Washington times., 1919-09-02
FOCH BIDS SPERSHING
FAREWELL AT PIER
Marshal Is "SruCk Hard in
Heart" at Parting From
American Chieftain.

BREST, Sept. 2.-Gen. John J
PeFshing, commander OF the Ameri-
ican expeditionary forces in France
is homewsrd bound aboard the great
transport Leviathan. The steamer
sailed after an informal but touch
ing ceremony, in which Marshal
FOch paid glowing tribute to the
American commander and his gallant
soldiers.
Recalling with emotion the hours
we have lived together" said Marshal
F'och, ST am struck hard in the heart
in passing with you the last moments
OF your stay among us.
when you came to US, you said,
Lafayette, we are here"
ALLOW q French soldier Of today
to return thanks to you and your
countrymen, and in a few words. re-
call the work you have done for the
rights and liberty Of the world.
TypieaI Of American Spirit.
Reviewing the events that marked
the American participation in the
war, Marshal Foch continued.
This army, raised in all haste, with
still only elementary instruction; re-
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young officers, without military ira
dition, passed rapidly into your hands.
You have shown yourself to be in the
largest sense organizer, soldier, chief
and great servant of your own eoun-
try. crowning the generous Efforts
and noble spirit Of America with VIC
tory by your armies.
IF the clouds OF war should gather
again in the future, would not these
dead rise from their tombs and make
their voices heard once more. by a
world which already knows that the
same cause, the cause Of liberty, has
united us since the time OF Washing
ton and Lafayette?
'sIn leaving france you leave your
dead in our hands. On our soil we
win care for them religiously and
zealouSly, as bearing witness to the
powerful aid you gave us. This dead
will bring from America many
thoughts OF remembrance and pious
visits, and will bind still more closely
our already close union"
Bids Farewell to France.
Replying to Marshal Foch, General
Pershing bid farewell to France and
her gallant poilUs, and her noble
women" He said:
"You have done me the signal honor
Of paying me a final visit. 1t is fitting
that you should be the last to whom
say farewell, because of our intimate
service together in the days Of anxiety
and victory.
The American army, In fulhllment
of the will OF the people, came to
France because we stood for the same
principles of right and because the
common ideals of the two countries
called for mutual action upon this
Close comradeship and
rapidly nodded our
fresh and aggressive young manhood
into an army which under you. as the
allied leader, was to turn the tide Of
war.
TO have fought beside the glorious
army Of France ana been Of your
people during more than two years
has given our relations an affection
ate touch, and makes our parting one
OF sadness.
but in these deep sentiments there
is an abiding confidence between our
peoples which insures TO the world
cur constant friendship and our COM
mon purpose in behalf Of humanity.
-In leaving with France our dead,
we are consoled to feel that their
graves will be tenderly cared for and
become a sacred shrine that will still
more 'hrmly bind us together"
Then the general and Marshal Foch
walked arm in arm to the gangplank,
exchanging final salutes as the mar
shall stepped ashore.