The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-01
Paris Plans Great
Tribute to Living
And Dead Heroes
By Henry Wood
limited Press Corespondent)


Parsley ail.)-France has
Just outlined the general nature OF
the victory celebrations that are to
mark for France and the allies the
close of the war.
They are to last for three days, and
il is planned to make them more I'M
posing than any triumphal entry that
has been staged since the days of the
victorious return to Rome of the le-
gions of the Caesars. Frances VIC
tory celebration, imposing as 1T may
be, will, however, also be trif1e more
democratic and trifie more human.
The first day of the great celebra-
ton will be given over entirely to trl-
butte to the memory of the dead. In
all probability the millions of dead
whose memory will be revered Will
far exceed the actual number of liv-
ling troops that will be able later to
march under the Arch of Triumph
and down the Champs Elysees in the
grand final triumphal march.
For the commemoration of the
dead, the great Arch of Triumph will
be draped in countless thousands OF
wards of mourning. An all-night
death watch will be maintained by
picked troops, and on the morning OF
, the beginning of the three days eel
ebrations, the widows, the orphans
and the surviving relatives of the mil.
lions who perished during the war Will
be escorted to the Pantheon where
: there will be buried and deposed or
behalf of France the ashes of deac
! soldiers gathered from the battle
fields of France, and mixed with the
earth of the battlefelds on which
they fell and from which their re
mains were exhumed.
This national interment in Frances
temple of immortality will be sym
bolic of the interment of all the l,
700 900 French soldiers who gave VI
their lives in the great cause.
v On the second day will come tina
|, long waited for event that for owe
four years was the far-away dream o
" every French poilu-the victoriou
: return to Pars of the regiments an
divisions from the front, their pass
age under the great Arch of Trump
and their triumphal march down tn
Champs Elysees to the Palace do
Concorde, then the sweep down tn
II great boulevards to the Palace de
Republique, with every inch of tn
D. way iammed with wives, daughter
mothers and sweethearts. The pol
- has long dreamed that that momel
II would repay him for all the years al
sufferings of the war.
49, On the last day of the celebration
all of the French provinces will gat
er in the Tuileries gardens and WE
come back to- their arms their I
0 stored sisters of Alsace and Lorrair
Delegations from each of the Fren
provinces, composed largely of wom
al, and birls, and wearing the native cc
ID tunes of their particular provin'
;+h will participate in this festival.
France has no intention of barri
:, :" her allies from the big celebrate
'"e and detachments of allied troops "
W. participate in the big triumph
49, march.
'"' When the French poilus and the S
diers of the allies march through
ice Arch of Triumph the flags which G
ife many captured in 1870 will be Civ
'es- a place of honor in the processi
be- The peace treaty calls for the imr
'ta- date return of al colors captured
in the Prussians in the course of
ma 1901 fighting, and it is hoped
In Paris that the regimental emble
are will be on hand for the great celeb
pile ton. For nearly fifty years tn
ons flags have been on exhibition in B
un- lin.
the
IN THE FUTURE