Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-31
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city in offering bitterest resistance to the Ger
mans in 1870.
First mutilated soldiers and veterans of
the Great War; then troops from Alsace and Lor-
raine and then colonials. General Berdouat gov
ernor of Paris followed, preceding flags used in
the late war, behind which came General Falque
and staff bearing artillery flags, and General
Derescas and staff, above whom waved cavalry
standards
Faded and shattered flags of 1870, recently
rieved from Potsdam and Berlin and carried by
veterans of the Franco-PruSSian war, escorted the
bearing the heart of Gambetta, who resisted
desperately giving these very flags to Prussia in
the. hour Of defeat
A delegation of noncommissioned officers of all
separated this from the 155-gun car
riage upon which lay the body of the unknown
soldier. President Millerand and all members of
his cabinet walked behind it, accompanied by the
three French marshals-Joffre the hero Of the
Marne; Foch, whose genius accomplished the final
defeat of Germany and Petain whose defense of
Verdun will forever live in French song and story
The procession terminated with delegations
from the St. Cyr and Polytechnic schools repub-
lican guards, colonial infantry, Senegalese units,
aviation officers, two batteries of 75's and of
1865. AS the procession entered Boulevard Sainte
Michel there was heard in the distance, from the
forts surrounding Paris, the first shot of 100
gun salute.
At $50 o'clock the procession reached the
Pantheon, where President Millerand made a
short address, 1t then continued down Boulevard
st. Michel and Boulevard st. German, crossing
the Seine by the Chamber of Deputies bridge It
circled Place de la Concorde, passing the statues
of Lille and Strausburg, and proceeded up the
Champs Elysees. 1t reached the Arc de Triomphe
at noon.
Armistice day was observed all over the United
States and in many ways. No national cele-
bration was held and where the buglers blew taps
to American dead it was to the Soldier Dead
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Secretary of War Baker was asked to authorize
the removal Of the body of unidentified Amer
ican soldier from France for interment in the
planned Victory hail. Pershng square, New York
city. He refused the authorization.
Mr. Baker said that if the United States were
to follow the example of Great Britain and France
such burial of an American soldier should be il
the amphtheater at Arlington in some of the
government public buildings He said that the
removal of body to the planned Victory hall il
New York would set a precedent and that many
other cities and towns would mot be contente(
to be denied the same opportunity to show rev
erence and respect
Whatever the result, American preceden
has been already set. In fact America set it fo
the world. In Arlington rises monument, dedi
Gated more than half a century ago with cere
mony, on which is this inscription:
Beneath this stone repose. the bones of tw,
thousand one hundred and eleven unknown sol
diers gathered after the war from the fields O
Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock
Their remains could not be identified but thei
names and death are recorded in the archives o
their country and Its grateful citizens honor then
as Of their noble army of martyrs. May they res
in peace. Sept. A. D. 1866"
Armistice day seems destined to come to meal
to the whole world what Independence day mean
to America.
How better express that meaning than throug
honors to the "Unknown Deadw