Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-26 | Page 3 | Graves of 70,000 to be Beflowered

GRAVES OF 70,000 TO BE BEFLOWERED LYONS, France. May 25. tBy the Associated As-sociated Press.) The graves of seventy thousand American soldiers who died in France will be decorated nest Friday under un-der auspices of the forces of the United States still In ?'ranee. General Pershing has issued a bulletin staling that all American soldiers shall participate in the Memorial day evei-cises. evei-cises. President Wilson will speak at the services in the American cemctery at Suresnes. near Paris. At Romagne, near the Argonuc, where the Americans suffered their heaviest losses General Pershing will speak In the afternoon. At Thianrourt. where manv of the heroes who fell at St. Mihiel are burled, Major General Ely will pie-sjriP. pie-sjriP. General Pershing will deliver an address In the morning at Dun-sur-Meuse. At Romagne a battalion of iinantty. a battery of artlllcrv and a regimental baud will do honor to the jr.nn soldier dead and similar delachments will participate par-ticipate In other large cemeteries. The graves registration service and the Red Cross will assist in decorating the graves.