Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-25
THOUSANDS HONOR
FOCH At CATHEDRAL
Crush at Arc de Triomphe
Causes Removal of Body
to Notre Dame.

BY the Associated Press.
! PARIS. March 25-The people Of
Paris again today for six solid hours
passed before the bier of the late
/ Marshal Foch which during the night
| had been conveyed from the Arc de
| Triomple 10 the Catheral Of Notre
Dame.
| When the doors of the great edifice
opened for the first mass of the day
at o'clock this morning. there was a
! line of people waiting to pass by the
coffin of the allied generalissimo.
Their numbers grew with each passing
hour and many thousands we're left
/ waiting outside in the Sun-lit square
when at noon the doors were closed
| again so that workmen might prepare
| the cathedral for the national funeral
| services tomorrow.
In the six hours that the doors were
open this morning. $4,000 persons filed
in an orderly and silent column past
the black and silver mortuary chapel
where the famous soldier lay guarded
by two priests and two Boy Scouts.
Workmen Rise Early to Pay Tribute.
Many Workmen who were unable to
approach the Ace de Triomphe yestr-
day in the great crush of more than
a million pilgrims. got up little
earlier than usual today in order to
go to Notre Dame on their way to
work, there to pay their respects to
the first soldier of France.
Those who spent the hours before
dawn laboring in the great central
markets of the capital walked across
the bridges over the Seine by the hum
dreds soon after sunrise to take part
in the public salute to the marshal.
Later In the morning women began
to outnumber the men that poured
through the carved portals of Notre
Dame. Representing the youth of
France, there were hundreds and hun
dreds of school children in the pro-
ceSsion.
The priests, who took turns standing
guard over the flag-draped bier, all were
soldiers at the front during the war.
The Boy Scouts, who were relieved at
frequent intervals, were stationed there
at wish once expressed by Marshal
Foch that the young generation might
do honor to the old.
Chapel Draped in Black.
The first of the chapels to the right
of the south portal was the mortuary
chamber, inside and out it was draped
in black, upon which in silver embroid-
cry were the letter "F'' and the seven
stars of the n1arshalS rank, behind the
coffin was a great embroidered crucifix.
Four taperS burned at each side of the
bier, upon which rested, as yesterday,
the kept, cloak and sword of the mar
shall as well as his crape-hung fanion.
Behind the bier, but in front Of a
small door-like opening, through which
the spectators gazed upon the interior
of the. chapel, stood former soldier
holding the furled regimental flags, and
on the other side nun knelt in prayer.
Only once during the morning was
there a. pause in the slow and steady
march of the passing column of pill
narshals widow came 10 pray a few
moments before the body of her devout
and illustrious husband.
One Dies in Crush of Arch.
Escorted by a detachment of the
18th Cuirassiers. bearing torches. his
bier was brought from the Arc de
Triomphe at midnight to the Cathedral
Removal to Notre Dame early today
represented a change in official plans
brought about by the crush of the
public demonstration at the Arcs de
Triomphe yesterday. in which one man
died and scores were injured as the
crowds filed past the bier, side by side
with that of Frances unknown soldier
1t had been planned originally to have
the body remain at the Arc de Triomphe
until later today, permitting other thou
sands who were unble to pay their hon.
age yesterday to do SO today Police,
however feared repetition of yester-
days crush and asked removal earlier.
Entry at Notre Dame Is Impressive.
Entry at Notre Dame was unosten-
tatious. but impressive. The great doors
of the cathedral were thrown wide,
while trumpets sounded and troops sa-
luted The coffin then was brought in
side them and given to the care of the
Cathedral Chapter, headed by Andrea
de la Barre, its dean. The dean read
PRAYERS proper to the occasion as it was
placed in the chapel
French authorities were reluctant to
restrict opportunities for homage to
their great soldier, but the decision was
forced upon them by the jam at the
Arc de Triomphe. which perhaps Just
missed being catastrophe. Just before
the body's removal at midnight the
crowds swept away the police guards,
crowding about the bier: REINFORCE
ments brought them under control
again, DuG MINE. FOCi1 fldQ QlIIlCulty III
reaching her automobile.
Million Gather at Arch.
Police said it was the greatest out
pouring toward one spot that demon
strative Paris had ever seen. The crowd
was large, containing perhaps a million
persons, though not more than a frac-
ton of that number filed past the bier
at the rate of 1000 an hour, but it was
sadly quiet. with hats off and many
heads bowed. From in the morning
until midnight the file in the front of
the coffin continued, the crowd moving
10 abreast. Even after the body was
removed at midnight. tens of thousands
remained in the vicinity.
An impressive ceremony Hast evening
occurred in the reviving of the undying
flame at the Unknown Warriors Tomb
Marshal Joffre, aged and weakened
himself, off1ciated, while the body of his
brother in arms lay at his right hand
Joffre was accompanied by Marshals
Petain Lyautey, Franchet. Desperey
Gen. Weygand and Paul Doumer, presi-
dent of the Senate. and surrounded by
the banners and delegations of veterans.
After the ceremony. all stood silent for
moment and then signed the golden
book of the watchers of the flame. They
turned and saluted formally the bier
of Marshal Foch.
Pershing and Herrick to View Service.
Five thousand persons will view the
| SaryirP in Notre Dame tomorrow