Show Cheers for U. U S. S Given by Great Paris Audience Meeting l Held to Spread Story of What America I IHas Has Done for France I Nov NOT 23 The The great creat am- am PARIS pAnTs JL of oC the Sorbonne with witha a 3 seating seating- capacity cap of at had not l been so crowded since Theodore Roosevelt spoke there thero several years cars ago as it was toda today when a brilliant brilliant bril bril- Ilant a assemblage e of French men and women gathered to give evidence evi evi- dence of their recognition of or what Americans have hare done lone for Franco France The audience which was composed composed com corn posed of or those who had assembled by invitation was largely of perSons persons per per- sons Eons of or distinction The stage tale was vas occupied by bv members of at the French academy the official 1 representatives tires tives of or Pre President Poincare members members members mem mem- bers of the cabinet many women and officers In uniform When the band of the Republican guard played the tho S Star lr Span Spangled led Banner tho the entire audience arose and remained standing until the American national anthem was fin fin- Then rousing cheers were given for tor the United States The reading of ot telegrams of or salutations sal sal- from Americans was greeted s with applause as also were references reC to the Individual cases C of ot devotion an and sacrifice b by Amer- Amer made by Alexandra Alexandro re and who presided After Arter the more formal part of or the pro program m had been carried ried out a poem by Walt Whitman hUman was r read ad Another poem entitled The Our Friends In America which was written for the occasion also was read 1 to the remarks of or M M. d and Prot Professor tho the A American merJean am ambassador William ilI G. G Sharp Sh expressed the tho thanks and deep appreciation of or his country for the tho sympathy testified to b by such an assembly It possessed he said Sp special significance cominS' cominS coming corning com corn ing inS on n the eve evo avo of oC m 1 day and g toI the ening call to general Impulses al already already nl- nl ready manifested in BO many practical practical pTa forms form made recently rc by President Wilson onto to his Js' Js fellow coun countrymen S S |