The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-11-11
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FINAL> INTERMENT OF
HEART OF GAMBETTA
Paris Witnesses One of Most
Remarkable Professions
=. Under Big Arch
FINAL> lNTERMENT OF
HEART OF GAMBETTA
By Henry Wood

Omitted Press Correspondent
Paris, Nov. 11.-All France is to-
day celebrating jointly the flftleth
anniversary Of the republic and the
signing of the armistice that ended
the late war. -
In commemorative of the joint
celebration, the above inscription
uniting the two dates has just been
permanently inscribed on the Arch OF
Triumph at the Etoile.
= In order to give special signitl-
canoe, however, it was decided not to
chisel the dates on the monument it.
self along with the hundreds of
thousands of others, but to engrave
it in the flagstones directly under
meath the center of the great arch.
While the fif'tieth anniversary OF
the proclamation of the French re-
public occurred on September 4, the
celebration of it was postponed un-
til today. The one celebration marks
the birth, Of the republic; the other
its salvation.
BY Far the most striking feature
Of today's celebration is the removal
to and final interment at the Pan
theon of the heart of Gambetta, the
founder of the third republic.
The heart of Gambetta was taken
from his tomb this week at the Villa
of Les Jarvis at Vile d'Avhay and
placed in box of wood, made from
the pines of the Vocges, which Gam
BETA loved so we'll. Last night the
sacred relic, placed on an artillery
carriage and escorted by military
contingents was brought to Paris and
rested for the night, surrounded by
troops and guards under the center
of the Arch of Triumph and just over
the inscription given above, engrav-
ed in the flagstones.
Then, today, for the final escorting
of this relic to the Pantheon, Paris
witnessed one of the most remark
able professions under the Arch of
Triumph that it has ever seen.
First of all there passed under the
Arch the battle flags Of the entire
French army as it exists today-ac-
tive, reserve, colonial, as we'll as all
battleflags taken from the French in
past wars but later returned by their
former yictors.
Scores of the flags that passed un-
der the Arch of Triumph today were
brought especially for the occasion
miles of distance.
. Each fag-bearer was escorted by
two soldiers from the regiment to
which the flag belonged.
In addition, there also participated
in the procession the survivors of the
war of 1870 and the mutilated Of the
present war.
This procession after passing un-
der the Arch Of Triumph continued
its way along streets lined on both
sides with troops holding their bay
onetted rifles at attention, until the
square in front of the Panthenon was
reached.
At the Pantheon both musical
and literary ceremony marked the
final intermenti of Gambetta's heart
in the great monument where lie the
remains of the greatest men OF
France. 4,
During the afternoon still another
ceremony was held at the Hotel de
Willie for the reception of the dele
CATION from sAlsace-Lorraine, as well
as the mayoDof all the French cities
and villages.
This evening four great military
professions will leave the Hotel de
Vile marching out in four different
directions, one to Place de la Con-
corde, one to; Place de la Republique,
one to the Lion de Belfort and one