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Show GLORY OF FRANCE IDEM IB Nothing Has Been Lost by i I the Great Strug-gle, Poincare Declares. PARIS, Nov. 11, Monday. President Poincare has written to Premier Clemen-ceau, Clemen-ceau, who is minister of war as well as president of the council of ministers, a congratulatory letter on the successful outcome of the war. The president says: "At the moment when the long series of victories to which your patriotic energy en-ergy has so largely contributed Is being completed by the capitulation of the enemy, allow me to express to yourself, with a request that you transmit it to Marshal Foch, General Petaln and all generals, officers, non-commissioned officers offi-cers and privates, my gratitude and admiration. ad-miration. "Since July 15 France has followed with breathless emotion the striking daily successes suc-cesses won by the allied armies and which precipitated the retreat of the German army . This morning the armistice arm-istice was signed which delivers Alsace-Ijorraine Alsace-Ijorraine from the enemy and permits the allied armies to occupy a vast zone of German territory as a guarantee to exercising exer-cising their rights." The letter then refers to the heroic soldiers sol-diers of France who fell in the earliest battles, and adds: "Nothing accomplished by their courage has been lost nor has their devotion been fruitless. The glory of France is made from the prolonged ardor, abnegation, sufferings suf-ferings and blood of her soldiers." |