Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-30

III Ul.AHdTE reilslOUS SeTNlceS. joined with America in the first of two days observance of Memorial day for the Americans who gave their lives in the great war, with British. Belgian and other allied participants. the French peo- pie symbolized their severence for those | who fell by notable ceremony al the ! Arc De Triomphe where soldiers and | civilians placed wreaths on the tomb of | Frances unknown soldier, while Hugh | c. Wallace, the American ambassador. | speaking for his nation. coupled his t-fb- ute to the dead with an expression Of l France
 throughout France. wherever there were American graves. memorial services were held in Tho French churches. and in Paris there were obseryances of inc day In all the Englis-sDeaking churches. Americas day for the dead has become almost French rite The government and people. through the newspapers and veterans organizations asked 10 be al- lowed to honor the American dead. and the programme. of today and tonca-ow suggested by the American Memorial committee, were arranged by the French alone at many places in various parts Of the country.
 The ceremony a the Arc De Trlomphe served as a symbol of the fraternity Of the comrades in arms in the late war when composite battalion of the Ameri- can forces of occupation from the Rhine land with it's band playing "Madelon." swung up the Champs Elysees. under the arch and passed the French Guard of | Honor, with a sprinkliug of other allied i uniforms in the massed forces at the | srcn AS the America nboys. tall and ] straight, and with their cesn-cut faces
 tanned almost to match the shade of
 their uniforms. marched passed the
 guard, the pride of the American spec
 tators was stirred by the Iaudatory com
 ments of the French veterans on the ap- pearance of the American forces
 Ambassador Wallace. Major General Henry T. Allen, commander of the
 American forces of occupat ton, scores of
 American officers and enlisted ben, del-
 egations of British and Bel=ians. and
 Representatives of American and French
 Organizations, attended services which
 were held in the American church of the
 Holy Trinity. The French governmen;
 was represented there and Marshal Foch
 who was absent from Paris. sent his mil.
 itary aide, meanwhile the American bat
 taiion stacked arms outside and formed
 outside the church. while the French bat
 tahons of infantry and cavalry wer,
 nassed in the adjacent streets. Headed by the mounted Garde, Repub
 laine. the procession formed outside th, : church, with the American battalion an,
 the French troops in line. followed b, delegations. with colors. from the Amer ican legation and from scores of Amer ican and French veterans. and militar, r societies, uniformed detachments of Brit 7 ish and Belgian troops. and the mem bers of the American churches. each con 4 tingent carrying a wreath for the poilu' tomb.
 . Between masses of spectators wit - barred heads the procession marched |
 the Palace De LEtoile, where the Frenc n troops facing outward In a circle. sur p rounde the arch As the American an ,t French marchers arrived they formed 1 ,t battalion front. facing each other an ~ presenting arms as Ambassador Wallac
 General Berdouiat. representing MinistC Y of War Marthou. and others. passe " through the center, where the ambasss
 dor laid on wreath the tomb and d, livered an address
 II In depositinE wreath unon the UT ,o known soldiers grave at today's Mem' , rial day exercises Hugh C. Wallace, II American ambassador said:
 T place this wreath upon the gray i of the unknown soldier who rests here a the very type and symbol of hero II. France. He died for France, as Fran, herself stood ready to die for liberty there was no other way. He died f 9n France, and glory could grant no mor Ill Who shall call him unknown when evel French mother who lost a boy ma 'u claim hem as her own?
 He sleeps in peace, but who d ,s more to bring peace to France and s the world? His body lies in the ear s which bore him, but his spirit linge T;g near, and. with it's fellows. keeps wat " and warn over France. This is T ie. death, it is life supernal.
 ei Soldier of France. I speak to yo - for you still have ears to hear V o praise you but we can do you little ho or, for you are above and beyond ( E earthly tribute. Your resting place, i hallowed tomb for you, is for us shrine. Here your countrymen may COT .nt ". as to an altar to pray for France. He ot they may inbibe patriotism for a nevt failing source.
 The spirit which took you into bs
 tie was the spirit of France. T
 eoura ge and devotion which led you ,E to the supreme sacrifice of your life
 home and country are at once pr
 cious memory and an example to be f nd lowed by all who come after you. Fran ial will not perish while the memory last did we pray that wars may cease, on that is as God wills. When France TO- threatened she will protect her own. I ow world knows what it owes her. and red allies will be faithful. but her chief ( lay fense is in her children. Inspired
 you they will do as you did. As tn at marched to the battle the eye of fa inc will see above. and marching with the ,an that other legion-the souls of ent Frenchmen who have died that Frar ral may live"