Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-26
FRANCE GIVES OCH
NATIONAL FUNERAL
$4,000 Marchers Pay Tribute
at Impressive Rites of
GeneraIisSimo.

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which was to pay the last honors Of The
Ynarshaps comrades-in-a arms to file pas
the eatafalQue.
The general was visibly undergoing
/ the greatest emotion. He sat erect as
usual. looked straight ahead until the
catafalque reached him, then with tn;
grace he has acquired with the left
hand, he saluted with his saber, turned
his eyes to the front again and went on
Two battalions of French infantry
followed the color bearer, marching with
their bayonetS fixed and in the COM
pany of two bands of 100 pieces with
nuffied drums and muted pieces playing
military funeral march French ma
rines followed with their broad blue
collars bordered with white.
Then 10 abreast and 10 deep, came
the future officers of France-perhaps
marshal or so among them-students
from the polytechnic school. Marshal
Foch's alma mater. Belgian grenadiers
in two attachments were next.
Ten American veterans bearing the
flag of the American Legion Post in
Paris and an American flag. both
draped in crepe, marched by, and were
followed by two ranks of officers. led
BY Col. Richard p. Ellis and Maj. James
B. Ord.
The famous Coldstream Guards. rep
reSenting Great Britain. followed the
Americans with their black and red
coats and dark trousers. each man with
his right arm behind his back, carry
ing reversed rifles.
Italians and Rumanians.
One hundred and twenty italians fol-
lowed, picturesque in their fiaring felt
feathered hats, their green gray uni
forms tucked into puttees at the knees
Behind them were soldiers of Poland
Each detachment Of foreign troops was
accompanied by French officer
Twelve Rumanian officers were fol-
lowed by two companies of mounted
Morrocans with gray lined black bour-
nous and drawn SaberS. Then came
the flags of all the regiments France
mustered out since the war. They had
been brought from Les Invaldes and
were carried by solid rows of color
bearers.
Then the funeral cortege itself.
In front was Cardinal Dubois and the
Bishop of Paris. the two prelates gor-
geous In their scarlet robes and long
trains carried by altar boys They were
followed by group of priests.
Orderly Leads Horse.
An orderly led Marshal Foch's fav-
orite horse, reversed boot in its stirrups.
His running black draperies studded
with gold stars almost touched the
~, his head down, as if fully aware
just what the occasion meant
behind him was the plain oaken
coff1n of TIE Marshal of France, COW
cred with white flag and borne on a
gun carriage of as" 1t was drawn by
six black horses. Running from the
casket were black cords held by Min
lister of War Painleve and officers of
the Allied armies.
1t was as the casket came into view
that the real difference between today's
crowds and those of the armistice, with
whom they compared in size, appeared.
The armistice crowd was noisy, hilari-
Gus. boisterous. Today the throngs
were silent and sad. But they were not
at other times so quiet as when faced
with the caiSSon and it burden. All
that could be heard as the caSket came
into view was the rumble of the gun
carriages wheels and the rhythmic rasp
of feet marching by the thousands
along the sanded street.
Every hat was of, most of the women
even uncovering. Above the whir of
airplanes could be heard, sounding
themselves like new plaintive notes In
the sad symphony Of mass and sound
and colo. The mist was SO thick,
though, they could not be seen.
Behind the casket there followed Bee
de Fouquieres, chief of the protocol,
guardian of French formalities. Thirty
feet behind him, walking alone, his
head slightly bowed, came the Presl-
dent of France, who set aside precedent
and protocol and insisted on marching
behind the body of the man who saved
France twice.
Pershing Is Palibearer.
Gen Pershing headed the ranks of
the pallbearers on the left side, the
British field marshal, Jacob, leading a
single column on the right with gen.
erals and marshals of other nations fol-
lowing and War Minister Painleve
bringing up the rear.
Next came the cabinet with Premier
Poincare and NJ. Barthou ahead and the
remainder following, with the excep-
ton of M. Painleve, who was beside
the coffin.
Nearly all the nations of the earth
were represented in the myriad-colored
group which followed. In the imposing
array of officers full-dress uniforms
and those of the ambassadors with
their frills and gold lace there were
absent representatives of only Soviet
Russia and those countries too far away
to send delegations IN time.
Behind this show of the glory of war
and power there appeared, with sud-
den shock to every one who saw. four
NAMED and SCARED figures, attesting
all its bitterness and tragedy.
The crowds saw the four figures and
some moaned, THE mutilated" Sobs
came from here and there in the mass
of watchers who saw again in memcry
their own kin with faces shot away,
eyes gone. arms and legs amputated
They were pitiful to look upon, but