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Show FRANCE OBSERVES AMERICA'S ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR rOINTE DE GRAVE, France, Sept. 6. (By the Associated Press.) France paid lasting tribute today to America's active entry into the great war by laying the cornerstone of a monument here commemorating the landing on the spot of the first contingent of American troops in 1917. Appropriate speeches by President Poineare and Hugh C. Wallace, the American ambassador, am-bassador, w-ere the chief features of the exercises, appropriately held on the birthday of Lafayette, who sailed for America from this same spot in 1777. The addresses of President Poineare and Ambassador Wallace were delivered during a slight rain. In addition to Premier Clemenceau, Marshal Foch and other distinguished Frenchmen, numbers of prominent Americans assisted in the ceremony, among them Frank L. Polk, undersecretary undersecre-tary of state; General Tasker H. Bliss and Brigadier General W. T). Connor, now commander of the American forces in France. |