Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-29
WILSON WREATH TO
 GRACE STATUE IN SURESkES CEMETERY
French to Honor Americans at Every Place They
 Fell

Paris, May 28 President Wilso, has ordered Memorial Day wreath O. flowers to be laid upon the statu, i"The American Doughboy" in Sure
 senes cemetery and Ambassadol Hugh 0. Wallace will deposit it there on Sunday.
 I Instructions were received today from MT. Wilson by his favorte flow. CT vendor when he was in Paris te get up floral tribute to American dead. The merchant called at the American embassy and was informed the order was all right and had come from the White House in Washington He returned to his store, to begin work on the wreath.
 The ceremony at Picpus cemetery where lies the body of Lafayette will appeal especially to the French people.
 The following message from Major General James G. Harbord, who con- manded the second division in the battle of Belleau Woods, will read on that field:
 Your comrades, the American Le- gloln at home, confide to you the duty of honoring the dead who sleep in i the soil of France and on the field of honor, they yet live in the hearts of those for whom they died and mil 1 lions of their countrymen enshrine their memory on May 30." A memorial ode to American volun- teers fallen for France, written by Allan Seeger, q member of the French Foreign Legion, who was killed in September, 1916, will be read in all American cemeteries where members of the American Legion participat ted. George Courtelin and Louis Mar solleau, widely known French poets, told the Associated Press this after noon that a special wreath of flowers inscribed "From the Poets of France would be placed upon Seeger's grave on Memorial Day.
 Lieut.. Col. Frank Parker, who is scheduled to make an address at the Poissy cemetery, was asked today for an outline of his speech.
 Speech" he replied, q am not go- ing to make a speech on Memorial Day. l am going to talk to those who are lying out there just as talked to them when they were liv- ing"
 Maj. Gen John F. O'Bryan, who is now in London, will speak at Bony, where many of the soldiers of the 27th division fell. Rear Admiral Hen ry McHouse will be the principal speaker at Belleau Wood.
 Premier Millerand has senG in- structions to the 26th army corps of France saying: "The French army will participate in ceremonies held in principal cemeteries where lie Amer ican soldiers especially Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel and Chaumont.
 Paris, May 28.-Sisterly affection and deepest sympathy for the women of America whose husbands, sons, brothers or sweethearts fell during the war is expressed in message received by the Paris Memorial Day committee from the society of French home, the members of which are French women who know the horrors of war and the heartaches that attend it. The message, which was inspired by the imminence of Memorial Day and the arrival of many sorrowing American women here, follows: Dear Sisters of America:
 "At the sad hour when those dear est to you received your last embrace as they parted from you and left their lives that right and liberty might triumph, the hearts of French wives, mothers and sweethearts were with you, because they had passed