Show PARIS EN FETE ON BASTILE DAYI OAY FRENCH NATIONAL HOLIDAY WAS WAS WAS' CELEBRATED WITH UNUS UNUSUAL AL BRILLIANCE American Soldiers Participate in Great Victory Parade Units and Individual Heroes Represent Each of the Allied Armies I i Paris The The conquerors In the great war marched Monday in a victory parade parade pa- pa pa pa- rade under the Arc through which only victors may pass paIS Picked units and Individual heroes represented each of the allied armies Several million grateful persons mostly French but with many thousands thousands ands of their allies struggled forward along th the line Une of march for an opportunity tun It to wave and shout their gratitude gratitude gratitude tude to the men who saved them from German ImperIalism The great triumphal arch conceived by toy Napoleon apoleon to commemorate his victory victory vic vic- tory at the battle of Austerlitz took on new historic Importance when the allies marched through the massive pile of masonry which dominates all aU Paris and moved down the Champs toward the Place Placede de dc la Ia C Con Con- n- n corde conic The place of honor In the procession was not accorded to the generals and the smartly equipped troops It was given to a thousand mutilated s soldiers who passed under the arch and in front of of- of the time tIle reviewing stand where stood President Poincare moving haltingly haltingly halt halt- and out of step as best they could Many were Injured some were blind some were In wheel chairs and others were were-on crutches or limped along with Ithe the aid of canes Few of them were uniformed They represented all of the provinces pro of France as was Indicated ladE Indi by b the time variety of their civilian attire They made no effort to main tam tain military formation but marched as well as they could to the airs played play play- ed d by the military band which led d' d them A thousand wounded ded soldiers with crutches crutches or in rn wheel chairs and clad for the most part In civilian clothes clothe led d th the the- parade being preceded by a drum drum corps Guns began firing at minute Intervals as President Poincare laced la ed a wreath reath at the foot of the cenotaph at the time Arc Are this morning This empty casket placed d there there i In memory of the he allied allied dead was also decorated by other wreaths these thes being placed by Premier Iz Clemen- Clemen Clemenceau a Fr French rich soldier r a Fren Trench French h sailor an Alsatian girl a girl girI from om Lorraine and Colonel Edmund Gros This last wreath was In memory of two seventy-two of the Lafayette Lafa-ette escadrille who lost their lives during th the war I Marshal Joffre JoUre the victor of the thC first battle of the Marne passed under the Arc u at 8 45 He ire Herode rode alone Behind him came Marshal Marthai Mar Mar- thai Foch the commander In chief of thc allied forces during the final campaign campaign campaign cam cam- of the conflict A storm of applause ap- ap please arose aros from the vast throng as is the two marshals passed the time presidents president's dents dent's stand and moved down yn the time brilliant brilliant bril bril- avenue |