Show Who Saved Paris Par is the ic Allies All ies Cant Can't Agree About It But the Soldiers Keep on Fighting the Germans Just the Same By WILLIAM G G. G SHEPHERD United Press Staff Correspondent Ma You cant can't exactly PARIS May 27 You 27 say that the tho allies arent aren't sticking together to together to- to gether but you do come across lotsof lots lotsof of ot quarreling bet between een them That Thatis is Ig not between een the soldiers but between between between be be- tween the tho civilians the folks who ho ont ha gone off to fight but who take their dut duty out in talking I There are plenty plent of ot fine tino strong strongmen strongmen I men of ot ever every nationality hero in I Paris Parts of ot every nationality except French If It the history books which are studied a quarter of a century from no now are as muddled in their stories of oC the tho great war warr as these men menor of or different nationalities here in Paris life lire is going to be a burden for tor forthe forthe j the school kid of or 1940 They The sa say that General French was outnumbered three to one at the tho battle battle hattie bat hat tle tie of Ypres said a Russian to me mc Its not true Yh Why seven-eighths seven of ot the German arm army was over on the eastern front fighting the Russians at that time It was the Russians that saved the tho little English arm army because we n e took so many German soldiers awa away from France If It youre you're a Frenchman or an Englishman Englishman Eng EnS' lishman you OU can take up the issue with this Russian artist in Paris an anytime any anytime time you ou pI please l e and get as pretty a n little laterally scrap a as you want want However If youre you're an Englishman you ou wont won't quarrel with the Russian because you'll you have your our hands tilled filled with your elder elderly French friends who couldn't get into the arm army because of their age What nt General French saved Paris Paris' one of at them exclaimed Absurd Why hr he and his little En English army was so far down south after the retreat from Mons ons that it took them two days darM to get back to the French lines to support them Rot Ive I've heard an Englishman answer We Ve allies mu must t stick toRether together to together to- to gether Rether and anil so I wont won't quarrel with you ou And just about this time another Frenchman will chime In It wasn't French who saved Raved Paris It H was Wl General Manour y Now this starts a a. qu quarrel between the two Frenchmen But Bul Foche got orders to hold his line when the Germans wore were cre advancing ad nd- advancing says the first Frenchman and he sent back word I can hold no longer I must attack Ahl Ahi That's a all very cry fine and true but with his little arm army came up against tho the German flank from Amiens when hen the Germans didn't even en know there was a n. Ma Ma- Ia- Ia nour noury army says sars the tho second Frenchman and ho he drove Von Kluck awn away from Paris It lt wasn't Foche or either chimes in a third Frenchman It was who 5 saved ved Paris got together an army of ot men In Paris on September 5 6 and he sent them out from rom Paris in taxicabs to the Marne larn and this fresh strength th turned the tho tide against tho the Germans It was who did It it Who was it who saved sated Paris I dont don't believe In the bally allies quarreling says sas an Englishman But it Jt was wars General Genral French and his En Englishmen who did It Tho The Germans didn't know kno they thoy were WE're anywhere anywhere any any- where near the Marno when General von on Kluck turned hl his flank toward the tho Memo Marno and started east to meet the forces of or the crown prince of ot Germany German General French saw w that he ho had him he ho struck at him like lightning and routed him It was wa done in human human hu human hu- hu the greatest thing thin ever man warfare Paris was saved that day day Yes without a n. doubt douht speaks up one of or the Frenchman who has been quarreling with his compatriots History will wUl probably say fla that the English saved Paris History is al always always al- al ways waa twisted around to give the English the best b b st of ot It Twenty five little children will willbe willbe years e rs from now no be spanked In school for tor not remembering remembering bering the date elate on which tho the English rescued Paris from the German hordes And with this bit hit of ot sarcasm he leaves s tho care muttering that everybody knows knos that It was waG General Joffre who really saved Paris Yes Indeed The Tho allies are sticking sticking stick sUck ing Ins together that Is I the soldiers of or orthe the allies are arc sticking together But with the civilians of ot tho the allies its it's quite another matter You C can neo seo this early in the great war ar that three sots sets of or histories arc going to be written written written writ writ- ten telling about what the allies did didIn didIn didin In 1915 1916 And those histories are goInS' goInS goIng going go- go Ing InS to dl disagree agree Just as radically as do the talkers of ot all nations In the cafes CAtes of ot Paris |