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Fitting Tribute to American

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Paris, May SO.-America's war
dead in Europe were eulogized and
their graves in all parts of France
were decorated today, the second
memorial day since the close of the
great struggle. American flags float
ed into the breeze over the resting
places of more than 10000 soldiers
and allied organizations Joined the
Americans in France in services to
their memory, while throughout the
republic detachments of horizon
blue clad poilus acted as guards of
honor at the cemeteries where lie
those who fought beside them on the
field of battle.
The American Legion with the
army and navy patriotic societies, CO.
operated with the newly formed mem
orial day committee headed by Am
bassador Wallace to decorate the lit
tie mounds in 497 burying places scat
tered along the battle front from the
Rhine to the Atlantic. At 125 places
there were single graves of Ameri-
can service men but memorial day
services were conducted over each of
these lone graves, some of which are
in southern Italy and others in
Spain. The French and others of the
allies took part in the ceremonies
virtually everywhere, while Marshal
Petain, the French commander in
chief and other men of prominence
from the French army and navy and
civil life delivered addresses.
In some places the French women
of the locality made the day almost
one of their own, bringing tokens of
their remembrance to place on the
graves of the youths who fought be-
side their boys in. the dark days of
two years ago. In all the Catholic
churches in Paris, in the Jewish syna-
gogues, American churches, there
were religious observations of Ameri
cas- day of tribute to her dead and
in the provinces there were number
less ceremonies organized by the par
ish priests of the population gener-
ally.
In Alsace children's, chorus
marched from one of the burying
ground to another to sing beside the
graves of fallen Americans, while
their sisters and mothers, with dead
of their own to mourn, placed flow
ers or grass wreathes on the mounds
beneath which lay the American
dead.
For the American army of occu-
patton, Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen
spoke at the great military cemetery
in Romagne-Sous-M ontfaucon, where
more than $1,000 Americans are bu-
ried and told of the great battle in
which fell most of them to whom he
did honor.
Speaking for the French govern
ment at Suresnes cemetery outside
Paris, Marshal Petain saluted the
dead of America and there also Am
bassador Wallace voiced Americas
message to her lost sons.
London, May 30.-America's mem
orial day for her soldier dead had an
unprecedented observance in the
British Isles today. The graves of
more than $500 American soldiers
and sailors buried in Britist soil were
adorned with wreathes and Ameri-
can flags distributed from surviving
comrades in the American Legion
and the members of other Anglo
American organizations.
Services were held at the graves in
the cemeteries at Glasgow, Liverpool,
Manchester, but the most significant
homage was paid at st. Margaret's
church, the official church of the com
mons, where Canon Carnegie, sub
dean of Westminster Abbey, lauded
the deeds of the American hero dead.
He gave assurances that English ap-
probation of the days meaning was
one of "more than sympathetic sem
timent."
John W. Davis, the American am
bassador, read the spiritual lesson.
The lord chief justice, the Earl of
Reading, Maj. Gen. Sir John Head
lam, Robert H. Skinner, the Ameri-
can consul general, and many other