The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-03
THE ALLIES BOW
IN REVERENCE TO
u. S. WAR DEAD.
France, Belgium and Great
Britain Observe American
Memorial Day With Stirring
Ceremonial.

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Paris. May 31.-The Stars and
Stripes and the t~ri-color OF France
flew side by side today over every
American grave in France while
doughhoys and poilus performed the
military honors in a great Memorial
day observance by the French nation.
There were detachments from the
army of occupation at most Of the
cemeteries, but there were a. few re-.
mote burial grounds which the Amer
lean troops could not reach and over
these graves detachments of poilus
fired vollevs for theirconerades il
arms.
Devotes Her Whole Heart.
From every cornAr of France came
reports tonight Of a great national
tribute to the Americans which made
it seem almost us though France had.
overcome for h moment the pangs
of losing nearly 100000 of her own
sons. to devote her whole heart to the
10000 crusaders from overseas.
General Allen. commanding the
Americans on the Rhine, SEN every
available soldier back into France in
attachments to visit the various scat
tered cemeteries.
The principal ceremonies were at
S~uresnes where Ambassador Wallace
n Marshal Petain, commander in
chief Of the French armies, delivered
address in memory of the dead, fol-
lowed by q volley from a platoon
down from the Rhine. General AL
len spoke amid the beautifully kept
graves in Romagne and the regimen
tai band Of the 18th Infantry played.
General Frank Parker was the
speaker in Ploisy; General John
O'Bryan in Bony: Colonel Cabot
Ward in Beaumont: Admiral Huse at
Belleau Wood, land Colonel Sladen
and Major Tochet at Chateau
Thierry.
Ceremonies in Other Cities.
Other ceremonies went on at Toul,
Thiaucourt, Fere en- Tarenois, Fis-
mes, ~Neufchatean, C~ontrexeville, Wit
tel. Lemans, st. Nazaire, Dijon, Lam
gres, Rouen, Chalons-Sur-Marn
Tours, Nevers, Mesves, ST. Maixent
and Juvigny, and in Bordeaux, Mar
settles, LIE Havre, La Rochelle, Nantes
and Lyons.
At every ceremony French turned
out in thousands. trudging along
dusty roads to bare their heads and
pray over the graves of their Ameri-
can friends.
Children were numerous and al
most every child carried q wreath
furnished by the Red Cross or a sim
pie bouquet of wild flowers plucked
in the woods and fields over which
the Americans toiled and fought.
The Red Cross in Paris modified a
motor convoy system which carried
most Of the American colony to the
nearby cemeteries.
At Brest, besides decorating the
graves, the French erected a huge
sailors buried there. In Marseilles
the merchant sailors in port joined
the American colony IN the ceremon-
les at the request Of the G. A. r and
Cleveland Cox placed a wreath on the
Lafayette memorial
Buy 10000 Wreaths.
More than 10000 900 francs was
raised by the colony, which was spent
for more than 10000 wreaths, or one
to a grave. The wreaths were dis
tfiSuteu III tiTno Tor toGays services.
Nor were the graves in Belgium,
Luxembourg and along the Rhine neg
lected, for the American committee
had forethought of them.
Throughout Franco the ceremonies
were official, the government having
ordained a national observance to re-
consecrate the friendship Of the two
countries.
Cardinal Lucon, OF Rheims, re-
quested his people to offer their
prayers for the intention of the
Americans.
HOW BRITISH OBSERVED.
London, May 3G.-Great Britain to-
day bowed in a spirit Of reverence for
the 1000 American dead soldiers,
sailors and marines and the Lusitania
victims, vino lie buried in various
parts of the Islands.
1t was an Anglo-American Manor
ial day service: which, in London,
filled st. Margaret's Westminster
with British and Americans of all
ranks of society under the auspices
Of the American societies.
ut is fitting that the people of this
country should not forget Americas
brave sons who came to Europe to
defend civilization and who died and
lie buried in our soil."" said Canon
Carnegie, at st. Margaret's.
Sing Battle Hymn.
The services opened with the Battle
Hymn OF the Republic" sung by the
massed voices OF the largest Ameri-
a gathering since the war.
Tho services in the little cemetery
beyond Queenstown where the Lusi-
tania victims rest in a square plot,
were attended by officers Of the
British army and navy. Admiral
Reginald G.. c. Upper delivered the
Memorial address, standing before
the flower decked graves and beneath
the folds OF the Stars and Stripes
which Tapped gently at half mast.
AS tn, services closed British army
buglers sounded the last post, the
equivalent Of taps, while the assembly
stood with their heads barred and
bowed. facing the square.
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