Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-07-09
250 MEMBERS u
LEGION To VISIT
FRANCE SHORTLY
viii Sail Aug. 8 to Attend
the Dedication of FIirey
Monument, in the Old
TOuI Sector.

Especial Correspondence to The JournaI.)
Indianapolis, Ind, July 8.--Two
hundred and fifty members Of the
American legion will sail for
France, August 3, to attend the
dedication of the Flirey monument
and to participate in series of
ceremonies arranged In their hon.
or by the French government. The
Flirey monument is tribute to
the valor of the American troops.
A replica of the monument was
presented to President Harding at
the White House by Ambassador
Jusserand on behalf of France.
Following the presentation of the
replica, Mr.. Jusserand transmitted
to John G. Emery, national COM
mander of the American legion, an
invitation from President Miller
and of France and his government
to send a delegation of legion
naires to France to attend the I'M
yelling ceremonies.
In accepting the invitation Mr..
Emery said;
please accept, my dear Mr..
President, on behalf of the Ameri-
can legion, the assurance of the
great pleasure it will bring to us
to journey again to France, for
yours is a land which the veterans
Of America have come to love sec
ond only to their own"
Mr.. Emery will be prevented
from going to France with the le-
gion party on account of the stress
of legion work in the United
States. The delegation will be
headed by Franklin D'Olier, of
Philadelphia, former national COM
mander of the legion. The MEM
bers Of the party will represent
every state and every branch OF
the former fighting forces of the
United States. The state depart
ment of the legion will be repre-
sented according to membership
strength.
Flirey is familiar to the A. E.
F. 1t is in the old Toul sector
which became American" in the
fall of 1917, and in which seven
teen American combat divisions
fought. The Eighty-ninth from
Kansas and Missouri Jumped off
from Flirey on September IL, 1918,
to begin their part in the drive
that cleared the ST. Mihiel salient.
President MilIerand, Premier Bril-
and and the marshals OF France
will be present at the dedication of
the monument.
While on their tour OF France
the legion party will go to the
Pyrenees to visit the birthplace OF
Marshal Foch, who will receive the
delegation in the house in which
he was born. Marshal Foch will
later come to the United States to
attend the annual convention OF
the legion at Kansas City.
At Blois the legionnaires will be
present at the dedication of the
statue o. Joan of Arc presented to
the city by the Joan Of Arc COM
mittee of New York. At RHEIMS
the veterans will participate in
the presentation of a three million
franc gift to the city library by
President Nicholas Murray Butler
OF Columbia university on behalf
Of the Carnegie foundation.
Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon,
Strasbourg and Metz will OFFICIALLY
receive the veterans, but one OF the
most unique receptions will be at
st. Die, a battle Scared town near
the old Luneville front, In this
historic place stands the house in
which the Alsatian monk, Waldsee-
Muller. lived when he wrote the
documents suggesting that the
western continent be named for
the navigator, Amerigo Vespucci.