The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-18
TRIED TO ASSASSLNATE
US. PROVOST MARSHAL
IN COBLENZ REGION
LONDON PRESENTED
SWORD OF HONOR
TO GEN. PERSHINC
Gift Is d-Mounted and Is a Hand
some Production of the American
Army Pattern.

London, July ls--London honored
General Pershing to-day by presenting
him the freedom Of the city and sword
of honor in the presence of distin-
guished company of Britons and Amer
leans gathered within the historic Guild
hail. John W. Davis, the American am
bassador, the embassy staff, Rear Ad-
miral Harry s. Knapp and his staff,
members of the British government and
a number of British generals were par
ticipants in the ceremony.
General Pershing was applauded by
the crowds that had gathered when he
made his entry into the city, where the
guilds and the aldermen in their Gus
tomary welcoming roles lent pietur-
esque aspect to the scene.
The general found a company of the
Grenadier Guards, with its band, drawn
up in the yard. He inspected the guards
and then entered the hall and was con-
ducted to the dais, where he was greeted
by the lord mayor and lady mayoress.
After the ceremony in the Guildhall
the lord mayor entertained the company
at a luncheon at the Mansion house
General Pershing sat at his right, with
Mrs. Davis, wife of the ambassador, at
the left. Others present at the function
included Ambassador Davis, Winston
Spencer Churchill, the war secretary;
the earl of Reading lord chief Justice;
Lord Lee; Field Marshal Sir Douglas
Haig and Lady Haig; the earl of Cavan;
Walter Hume Long, first lord of the ad-
miralty; yiscoumt Bryce, the members
of General Pershings staff and the com
manding officers of the American units
which will take part in tomorrow vic
tory celebration.
Also attending the luncheon were the
members OF the American embassy staff,
Major General John Biddle and his staff !
Rear Admiral Knapp and other Amer
lean naval officers, together with Major
g. II. Scott and Brigadier General E. NJ.
Maitland, of R-S4 fame,
After General Pershing had been greet
ed by the lord mayor, Sir Horace B.
Marshall, and the lady mayoress, the
town clerk, Sir James Bell read the reso-
luton of the corporation authorizing the
presentations. The city chamberlain,
Adrian d. W. Pollock, then turned to
General Pershing and delivered his form
al address
1T is now nine years" said the cham
berlain, "since the corporation of this
ancient city welcomed in this hall Theo.
dore Roosevelt and it il a happy circum
stance that the next ceremony of pre-
cisely the same character should be one
in which another American is the hon
ored guest of the city--the gallant com
mander of the American expeditionary
forces, a soldier whose character and
qualities were recognized and sppreciat-
ed by no one SO quickly as by Colonel
Roosevelt"
Replying, General Pershing paid trib-
ute to Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Sir
David Beatty, and the men of the British
army and navy, and continued;
1--WE came abroad to maintain the sa-
cred principles of liberty. which autoc-
racy and militarism had threatened.
Those things were as near and dear to US
as they were to you. You have been
fighting our cause as we'll as the cause
of mankind Out of this intimate asso-
citation has arisen new spirit of com.
radeship.
1T is our hope that the two great
nations may now act in common in
achieving new successes during the years
of peace to come and in the enjoyment of
those blessings which our common sacri-
fees have won for us.