The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-10
10000 TROOPS
Will MARCH IN
VICTORY Event
All Allied Armies to Take
Part in Victory Day. Parade
In Paris.
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated PreSS)
PARIS, July 10-Twenty thousand
picked men representing all the al
lied armies, will parade from Porte
Maillot to the Place De La Republic
republique on Victory Day, July IA.
How many millions will view the tri-
umphal march of the victorious armies
is a matter Of conjecture The parade
will be formed at Porte -Maillot and
will begin to move at $50 o'clock
down the Avenue De La Grande
Armee under the Arc de Triumphe to
the Avenue des Champs Ulysses, the
Place De La Concorde and along the
| Rue Royale; then down the boule-
wards Capucines Italians, Mont Mar
| tire, Poissonniere, Lions, st. Denis and
ST. Martin to the Place De La Repub-
| lique.
General Pershing and his staff will
| have place on honor in the parade,
riding Immediately behind Marshal
| Foch. A squadron of republican guards
! Will lead the procession, then come
Marshal Foch and his staff; then Cen
! eral Pershing and the American gen
erals; then Field Marshal Haig at the
mead Of the Highlanders, Irish Fusi-
| leers and English troops.
Gallant little Belgium will be rep
! resented next, by Generals Guillain
and Leman, the hero of Liege. Gen
eral Diaz. the Italian commander-in-
chief. will be next in line Contin-
gents from Japan, Greece, Poland and
Portugal. Serbia, Rumania, Siam and
company and flag will march in the
order named.
! Petain to Lead French
! Marshal Pctain, with Generals De
Castelnau. Debeney and Berdoulat,
military governor of Paris, will imme-
dately precede the French detach-
ments from twenty-one army corps,
bearing the flags of all the French
regiments which have seen service
during the war.
The polytechnic schools from ST.
Cyr. Versailles, Fontainebleu and St.
Maxinat will then file past. After the
republican guards, firemen and French
lumber men and woodsmen will march
detachments Of Colonial troops from
Morocco, West Africa and Asia
Admiral Renarch will lead his heroic
Marine fusilleers with User and Dix
nude inscribed on their banners.
The guns of France will be feature
Of tho parade-one battery each OF
75's, 1.-The terror Of the Boche"; 105 6
and 165's, and the long range gun
which fired upon Dunkirk.
Americans Assembled
The cavalry which since 1914 has
suffered somewhat of an eclipse, will
be represented by companies of Hus
sars, Dragons and Cuirassiers. The
tanks which were greatly instrumen
tai in hTjnQinQ the q success
full conclusion, will bring up the real
Of the procession, the baby Renaults
I receding the medium type tank ot
1917 and the monstrous engines Of
1916.
assembling in Pershing Stadium
the regiment will worthily uphold the
American tradition.
Even Germany will be given a place
. captured from the enemy in the bit
terest battles of 1918 in the memo
rable days of the User, the Marne
the Somme and Verdun will be car
! ried by the units which emerged vic
, torious from these engagements.
Under the Arc de Triumphe there
is being constructed a huge catafalqut
with an empty coffin embodying the
, souls of the million and a half meI
who died in France. At this poin
the troops will come to attention, Mar
shals Foch and Petain, Generals Per
. shing, Guillain and Diaz, Field Mar
shall Haig and other high officers viii
salute; the soldiers will present arm!
while the bugler trumpets long live
the dead"