The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-01-06

city In offering btterest resistance to the Ger.
mans I'm 1870.
First came mutilnted soldiers and veterans OF
the Great War. then troops from Alsace and Lor-
raine and then colonias. General Berdoulat, 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 re-
trieved from POtsdam and Berlin and carried By
veterans of the FrancoPrussian war. escorted the
car bearing the heart Of Ganbetta, who resisted
desperately giving these very flags to Prussia In
the hour of defeat.
A delegation of noncommissoned officers Of all
arms separated this from the 155gun
riage upon which lay the body of the unknown
soldier. President Millerapd and all members Of
his cabinet walked behind 1t, accompanied by the
three French marslals-Joffre, the hero Of the
Marine; Foch whose genius accomplished the final
defeat Of Germany, and Petain. whose defense OF
yerdun 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. Senegalcse units.
aviation officers, two batteries Of 75s and one OF
1858. As the procession entered Boulevard Sate
Michel there heard In the distance. from The
forts surrounding Paris. the first shot Of 100
gun salute.
At 9:3O o'clock the procession reached the
Pantheon, where President Millerand made a
short address II then continued down Boulevard
st. Michel and Boulevard st. German. crossing
the Seine by the Chamber Of Deputies bridge 1t
circled Place de Ia Concorde passing the statues
Of Lille and Strausburg, and proceeded up the
Champs Elysees 1t reached the Arc de TrOmphe
at noon.
Armistice day was observed all over the United
States and In many ways. No national cele-
bration was held and where the bugers blew taps
to American dead It was to the Soldier Dead
and not to the unknown Dead"
Secretary Of War Baker was asked to authorize
the removal Of the body Of an unidentified Amer
lean soldier from France for interment In the
planned Victory hall, Pershing square. New York
city He refused the authorization.
Mr. Baker said that II the United States were
to follow the example OF Great Britain and France
such burial Of an American soldier should he In
the amphitheater at Arlington In some Of the
government public buildings. He said that the
removal of a body to the planned Victory hail In
New York would set q precedent and that many
other cities and towns would 'n6t be c0ntented
to be denied the same opportunity to show rev.
erence and respect"
Whatever the result. an American precedent
has been already set. In fact. America set II for
the world. In Arlington rises monument, dedl-
Gated more than half a century ago with cere-
mony. which is this inscription:
Beneath this stone repOse the bones Of two
thousand one hundred and eleven unknown SOL
diers gathered after the war from the fields OF
Bull Run and the route to the RappahannOck
Their remains could not be identified but their
names and death are recorded In the archives of
their country and ITS grateful citizens honor them
as Of their noble army Of martyrs. May they res,
In peace. Sept A. ID. 1906"
Armistice day seems destined to come TO mean
to the whole world what Independence day means
to America.
How better express that meaning than through
honors to the unknown Deadr'