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Show I- i MARSHAL RETAIN. famous. i French nghter. who is coming r ! to America to express his thanks for d I' Yankee aid in wiuuiiir the world!, j ! war. .: r! 1, !; t . 3 H r . ; ' A i i- t .t. v, I ! f-- J 1 At -1 ! ! 1 . - . j h V "v.5 1 It " " " " ' ' ' " " " ; V i ft. ' ''. ; ci . - - -d jg j ( I "-' -iw j-mi imi f-r w-j- :' -ft - A ' t MARSHAL PETH WILL KISIT II. S. i j Commander in Chief of French Armies to Thank j Americans. CHANT1LLY. France. Saturday. April' 12, -By the Associated Press. " Marsha! Petain. commander in chdef of the Trench armies in F rv. n e e . announced his i n t e n -j tiv today of visiting the United States, f "I hae not beer. Invited to Ame-iea yet." said t::e narsrial to th.e Associated Press correspondent, "but I have the intention in-tention of visiting: America, as I consider It my duty to go thee for the pur-ose of ih.ankiuc the Americans tor everything they : it v e cone t h : o : : h tier K ed Cross for the c:ddaus an. d soldiers of F ra u c e . A fterward 1 purpose goinsr to see th.e chiefs of th.e American army who have cooperated ::i V.ntnz the war. "These visits co :: o : u d ed . 1 hope to go there once more as a o:i.ian. so that nobody no-body shall recocnie :r.f. at a! make a tr.p t h ro c 1 . the U u i t ed S t a i e v. : ;a a : e s" friends.- ... j These pro; ecus ot tne n:a:-sh.U: were c:s- 1 closed in the cov. -se o f a :: i n r e rv ie w : (Continued on Paa 2. Column 2.) MARSHIIL PETA1N WILL -VISIT U. S. (Continued from Page One.) which the French commander expre-sed ! his amazement at the wonderful uri;.-.r.i- ' i rati on established by the Americans hp- I hmd the lines which he recently visited In I company with se vera' other French Ken- j e'als. He dec.arJ that du-Sm; the . os-ti: os-ti: Sties he had n-i time to ed mine what he now termed the "ma rvelous a r ranee -merits'' n.ade for the supply, subsistence and transport of the American troops |