The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-19
President Poincare Strikes Keynote
OF Peace Congress in Opening Speech

0enemen: France and thanks Tor having chosen
the of abors the city more than our year, the
enemy has made his principal military objective and which yao
Oh ne "u armies mas NcioHonSy defended against increasingly
Permit your homage all the nations
that toward country which any
endured the suffering OF OF which entire provinces have been
transformed into battlefield and systematically laid
waste by the invader and which has paid the human tribute in DEATH
France has borne these enormous sacrifices although She had
not the slightest responsibility or the rghui catastrophe which
has overwhelmed the universe And at the moment when the cycle
OF horror is ending all the powers whose delegates are '''en'"
here may acquire themselves OF any snare IN the CRIME "ch mas re-
suited in unprecedented disaster Na gives YOU inc 'o'E
establish OF justice the tact iAa none oil the peoples
OF whom you are the delegates has Rad ar" part III '' oS1'
humanity can pace confluence III III !o" "'' ~" ' ' "0
NOSE VINO nave outraged ."V ''s. ''s " ~ ;,, ;,,;,;..
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truth o''hea III ,oo" ""' "''@"'i @ 'o"I' | i | ~ I r.J
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by a SccIct Po, Lo''0 ~" "'.' w. I", ,o finn, fIo,
crush oeToa ana 'o'e ,l'' w." ~, 10 | l t crush nIr,n,
and force their way into the heart OF france
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way to aggression Inc combined EFFORTS Oh "''" p,""" ~
and Russia were eNeTted against 'al man '""u' ,'S
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sword have persihed by the sword hey nave oN themselves 10 D
They have been destroyed BY IheI own on"ontS''
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July 1914 when to Great Bran they s0Sse'cu' lo" us 10 a0N
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