Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-28
FLOWERS FOR GRAVES
Of WORLD HEROES
RESTING IN FRANCE
President Orders Wreath at Foot
of Doughboy Statue in Paris
Memorial Day.
ENTIRE FRENCH ARMY TO
AID IN OBSERVANCE
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Hy Associated Press 10 Every Evening
Paris. Nav President Wilson has
ordered Memorial Day wreath of flowers
TO be laid upon the statue. The American
Doughboy" in suresnes Cemetery, and
Ambassador Hugh G. Wallace will deposit
II there ON Sunday
instructions were received today from
Mr.. Wilson by his favorite flower vendor
in Paris 10 get up floral tribute TO
American dead.
The ceremony at picpus cemetery,
where lies the body Of LAFAYETTE will
appeal specially IN the French people
Col. Drake of the memorial day committee
will preside and will make n short address,
10 which Marquis Chamhrun, grandson
of Lafayette. viii reply
The following message from Mai. Gen.
James G. Harbord, who commanded
the Second Division in the battle Of
Belleau Wood, will be read on that field
Your comrades. the American Legion
at home, confide 20 you the duty of honor
ing our dead who sleep IN the soil OF France,
Dead on the field Of honor. they vet live
in the hearts Of those for whom they died,
and millions Of their colntrymcn enehrlne
their memory on May 30. .
A memorial ode 10 American volunteer
fallen for France. written by Allan Seeger
r fnefllIeF gE the ffEI1FH t4lffRtt tatEHtft9
who was killed in September. 1915. will
be read in all American cemeteries where
members of the American Legion partlci-
pate II was ~ have heen read by tho
author before the statues of Lafayette
and Washington in this city on May 10
1917, but Seeger met death in the midst
Of the French offensive on the ~ommr,
at Relloy- -En-Santerrc, soon after pennlng
| the lines
/ George Courteline and Louis Marsol-
/ lean. widely known French poets. told
i The Associated Press this afternoon that
/ n special wreath III flowers inscribed
f from the poets of France" would he
| placed upon Seegers grave on Memorial
| Day
Lieut. Col Frank Parker who IS sched-
| uled 70 make an address At the Poissy
Cemetery was asked today for an outline
Of his speech
Speech" he replied II am not going
to make speech On Memorial Day, an
going TO talk to these boys Of mine whc
are lying up there just as talked 70 them
when they we're living
Major General John r QRyan, vhf
now is in London, will speak nj B0ny
where many of the soldiers Of the 27tf
Division fell. Rear ADMIRAL Harry Mel
r Huse. vii he the principal speaker q
Belleau Wood
A touching tribute il planned bv The
union Of sporting fcderaiions Of France
of which CASTOR Vidal il president. It hai
decided 70 place 4 special wreath upon tn
grave of John Overton. Yale athlete ant
champion mile runner. who was Aiief
during the early DAYS Of the great allieS
offensive Guiliemnt the French cham
pion mile runner, has been chosen {,
deposit the flowers upon Overton grave
In the absence af Andre I.eievre, MN
ister Of war. Premier Millarand has sen
instructions To I'll the u Army CorTls Q
France as follows.
The French army Will participate u
the ceremonies held IN principal ceme
teries where lie American soldiers. cspeei
ally Belleau Wood = Aihicl am
Chaumont
Castor Vidal. president Of the mon 9
sporting Federatlons has issued a clrcsi
lar to all sporting federatlons IN Franc
: saying
.Niax ~. s a dsy of mourning i
America. bar i S also a day upon ~hicf
sporting events assume 4 promlnt0
place. Lei US mourn the American dead
but IN the tinal elimination contests NhirI
will choose athletes for participation n
the Antwerp Olympic. lei rs do our hesi
Hats of TO the American dead. let Is d4
our spikes in the track and beat tn
American living