The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-05

ENTERTAINED BY FRENCH OFFICIALS ! Paris, Aug. 5-The members of the Good Will Delegation, which arrived at Havre on August 9, were recogniZ-
 ed by the French civil authorities
 everywhere they go as official rep
 resentatives of the American cities from which they come. They will
 be received by President Millerand at the summer ElySee at Ram boui1let, | each department in which they stop for any length of time, by the Arch bishop of Reims and other clerical | dignitaries and by the military au- l thorities. The latter have appointed
 officers of high rank to conduct the party to places of special interest on the battle front and to explain just what happened there. At Verdun. 1 the delegates will establish a prece- dent by spending the night in the | Citadel, sleeping on army cots. No
 French woman ever has been so hon. | orsd.
 In Paris every minute will be taken up not only with gala receptions but | with less formal activities designed tourist visiting the French capitaY for the first time, but also to the usual feminine idea of Paris visit. There
 will be excursions to the shops and
 famous dressmaking and millinery es- establishments of the Rue de Ia Peix
 and Place Vendome. The visitors
 will be taken to the workrooms of
 several "houses" the names of which are famous the world over. They are to be received at the country home of Sheldon Whitehouse, Ameri-
 of Ambassador Herrick. There is tto be a gala performance at the ESs- | tonal Opera House in their honor, a
 reception by the Minister of the Lib
 erated Regions and many other spe- l cia1 functions.
 While in Paris the party win stop
 at the Hotel Moderne in the Place de from the Place de la Bast.le, site of the prison which was stormed by the , Paris populace in the early days of , the French revolution, and in one of
 the most historically interesting quar- ters of the city.
 II Owing to the fact that the dele gation was delayed in its sailing from the S. S. Lafayette. it will reach Ha- vre on August instead of July 31 , as originally planned. AS a result
 the partys first stay in Paris will be , will be carried over until the second and third visit to the capital.
 Party Divides.
 On Friday morning, August 4, af- , ter some tof the Paris sights together, F the party will divide into two groups, : called Group A and Group B.
 ], Group A VII leave Paris in auto | cars. going by way of Pontoise and
 Gisors. to Rouen, the richest city in
 France in Gothic architecture and
 burial place of Joan of Arc. Here
 the night will be passed. The next
 day the old Norman town of Caen
 will be reached by way of Brionne and
 Lisieux and on Sunday, August 6, the 1 Good Will party will peach the Nor mandy coast, lunching ct the ancient
 port of Granville and then going on
 to Mont Saint Michel described by the French writer Dumazet as the most sublime poem in stone ever raised by hand of man."
 During. the week that follows : Group A, leaving Normandy, will visiting all the principal points of
 interest as far westward as Rennes l and then, turning southwards to Nn- 3 gers, will follow the picturesque Val
 ley of the Loire, famed for its cha t teaux. to Langeais, Azay-le-Rideau, I Tours, Chenonceaux, Ambroise. Chau- 3 mont, Blois, Chateaudun, Chartres g dun, Chartres, Rambouillet, to Paris i arriving on Saturday morning, August t 12. On Sunday the party will rest
 and on Monday morning, August IA s the cars carrying Group A will leave to visit a section of the 300-mile bat t tie iron. En route to Soissons, the s party will pass through Senhs and I AOld OAOAANo- 4Ilo ilL "AAl pS oPSAA' l at Soissons.
 The ensuing week will be devoted
 to visiting the scenes of some Of the
 bitterest fighting of the war. The = Aisne will pilot the party on part = of the way to Retms, passing by the = famous sector of the Chen1in des y nearly four years of continuous strug- 7 gle. finally, in May 1918, bent back t the French line. took Soissons ms and and 2 to be hurled back by the American ) troops in July, 1918.
 !. At Reims there will be a reception : at the Hotel de Vile by the Prefet :, | of the town and later, the Archb1so- s op of Refms, will receive the party s at the cathedral
 0 Leaving Reims. on Thursday, Aug. e IT, the party will pass through the = Argonne Forest to Romagne where q 14,o00 United States soldiers rest in s peace beneath the Stars and Stripes. g Verdun garrison will join the party
 and describe what happened on the e battle-scarred approach to that ia fa7
 the nigh in The fbe Nast l The next day, Friday, will be devot- = ed to visiting the forts and battle /: fields, where the stup pendous struggle l was fought out. Leaving Verdun, the
 party will visit sectors famous for the 0 heroic offensive of the American S troops, Clermont-e and ana Sup, t Ilons-sur-Marne for the night. The
 next day the winding course Of the 4 Marne will be followed through Ep- $ Chamery where Lieutenant Quentin
 Roosevelt is buried, by Fere-en-Tar- - ldenois, Chateau-Thierry and Belleau T Wood with it's memories of our gal e lant marines, by way of Meaux to s. Paris where Group IA will reJoin
 Group B, which will have made the
 same tours, to Normandy, Brlttany
 the Loire and the hatflef1eldS put III