The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
GREAT, LOVELY
MINGLE TO PAY
HERO HOMAGE
Highest Funeral Honors
Nation Can BeStoW VIII
Be Paid.
AD0RED BY COUNTRY
Mild hammered Military
Genius Was Esteemed as
Victor, Savior.
ADORED BY COUNTRY
BY RALPH HEINZEN

BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press staff Correspondent
PARIS, March 21.-The. body of
Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, VIC
tor over everything but death, lay
in state today not far from the
eternal fame at the tomb of the
Unknown Poilu.
Clad in the dark blue uniform of
his country and decorated with the
bright ribbons of her brightest hon
ors, the Little Warrior" slept quiet
ly at last behind the shattered win
dows of his home on Rue de
Grenelles.
France knelt before the bier of
the mild-mannered military genius,
who claimed, in death, the redou-
bled esteem and alteration of the
nation which had honored him as
victor and savior.
Heir to the military glory of Ma
poleon. the supreme commander of
The allied wartime armies prob
ably will lie for day beneath the
broad curve of the Arc de Triomphe.
Great Funeral Planned
Then, after the greatest national
funeral honors which France can
bestow at Notre Dame cathedral, the
body will rest in the Invalides, &C
cording to present plans.
The funeral will be the greatest
ever given a French hero, official
sources announced, although plans
have not yet been completed.
The national services probably
will be delayed until Sunday or
Monday to permit time for arrival
of foreign delegations.
There was satisfaction today in
the hearts of the men who had come
back from the mud of trenches in
Flanders that lie Marshal" had
uttered, even with his last breath,
the cry of the poilu, "Allons VI"
Oet's Coz.
It was with the shout "Allons Y"
that the poilu leaped from the
trenches in the World war.
1t was with that same phrase that
Foch replied to his attendant when
the ptient was told that it was time
for him to return to bed, moment
before death came to him at dusk
Wednesday night.
Pershing to Attend Rites
- The government placed before
the chamber of deputies this
morning bill providing for the ex-
penSes of national funeral for
Foch. Andre Tardieu, minister of
) interior, pointed out that the serv-
ices would be the sixth accorded
in the last f1fty-six years.
Victor Hugo, Gambetta, PaSteur,
Carnot and sthe late President Fe-
liX Faure alone have been SO hon
ored, the minister said.
General John j. PerShing, who
mad planned to go to the Riviera to
complete his recovery from an at
tack of influenza, will remain in
Paris to attend the funeral.
Great and LowIy Mingle
Silk-hatted Japanese ENJOYS,
Egyptians wearing the fez, laborers
doffing their shapeless caps, former
poilus, all mingled in common grief
in the courtyard of the Foch home
today as they sought opportunity
to enter the salon doors to pass
the black catafalque to which the
body, dressed in full uniform of
horizon blue, had been removed
from the bedroom upstairs.
The white waX-like face of the
supreme commander of the allied
forces is deeply lined with the marks
of the months of suffering, in
marked contrast to the firm, healthy
countenance that thousands of
American doughboys knew SO we'll.
To any one who had not seen F'och
in the last three months the wasted
figure was hardly recognizable.
Most of Foch'S decorations were
pinned across his left breast, his
hands were crossed over them, and
his blue cavalry great-coat was
folded across his feet and legs to
the knees. No marshaPS baton or
sword was there. His head was
bare.
No Flowers at Bier
Madam Foch revealed that the
marshal had specified in his will
that there were to be no flowers at
his funeral and the absence Of these
as he lay upon the catalogue made
the stark simplicity the more i'm
pressive.
Over his head were draped the
allied flags he loved to caress during
the days in which he steadily grew
weaker.
He often waved his hand toward
the American flag during the last
week when he spoke to his con-
lessor or physicians about hundreds
of letters and kilograms of sympathy
arriving daily from the United
States
President Doumergue spent ten
minutes beside the bier of Marshal
Foch this morning. He then ex-
pressed the sympathy of the ma
ton to Nine Foch.
The president. was followed to the
Foch home almost Immediately by
Georges Clemenceau, wartime pre-
mier.
Shortly after Ambassador Myron
9errick had delivered the American
MESSAGE of sympathy at the Foch
home at noon. Generals Pershing.
ofTre and Petain arrived at the
house to pay their respects.
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