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Show FRENCH ACM THEHTilL M July 14 Celebration Entered En-tered Into With Joy by Parisians. By WARWICK THOMPSON. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. (Special Cable Dispatch.) PARIS, July 13. At 10 o'clock tonight will begin the greatest "glorious fourteenth" four-teenth" celebration in the history of the republic. As the correspondent writes, motor lorries are passing the Crillon. They are filled with doughboys from the various American corps on the Rhine, who are to represent Uncle Sam in the monster parade tomorrow Bast lie day. Cheers rend the air. The great holiday holi-day crowds watching the lorries rumbling by show 'that they mean, in the hour of victory and triumph, to show their gratitude grati-tude to the fighting lads from America who took a decisive part in the battles a year ago that made this celebration possible. Tonight the people of Paris will be seen in pious pilgrimage to the huge cenotaph erected beneath Napoleon's arch of triumph in memory of France's dead heroes. As the monument is unveiled un-veiled searchlights will play a myriad of rays upon It, and all around it will l.e played torches that are to burn till dawn, whije troops will hold an all-night honor vigil. CI tv-wide torchlight processions began at 10 o'clock tonight. Bandstands have been erected at all important places. Street dancing will last all night, and the celebration as a whole will not end until the wee sma hours of Tuesday. The heart of Paris throbs with joyous, feverish expectancy. "fiay Paris" Is coming into Its own again. The city is choked with people; thousands have come from the suburbs, from all parts of France, even from various parts of Europe, to witness the spectacular festivities. Farmers from the north and south of France can be seen tonight gazing with deep wonderment at the beautiful decorations deco-rations of the city, from the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysees to the most ohscurc alleys. There is scarcely a window or a post not bedecked with flags, or flowers or laurels. Enterprising youths with expert glances are sizing up streets from which they . expect to view the great parade. Hundreds of men, women and children are camping on the avenues all of tonight, to-night, to be sure of a place of vantage tomorrow. Some have brought rickety field chairs, but most of them are squatted on the hard stones. The Champs Elysees. Paris's most beautiful avenue, which leads from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde, Con-corde, is one great riot of colors. |