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Show PARIS Efl FETE ; OifRASIE DAY' FRENCH NATIONAL HOLIDAY WAS CELEBRATED WITH UNUSUAL BRILLIANCE. American Soldiers Participate in Great Victory Parade Units and Individual Heroes Represent Each of the Allied Armies. I'aris. The conquerors in the great war marched Monday in a victory parade pa-rade under the Arc d'Triomphe, through which only victors may pass. Picked units and individual heroes represented each of the allied armies. Several million grateful persons, mostly French, but with many thousands thous-ands of their allies, struggled forward along tin; line of march for an opportunity oppor-tunity to wave and shout their gratitude grati-tude to the men who saved them from German imperialism. The great triumphal arch, conceived by Napoleon to commemorate his victory vic-tory at the battle of Austerlitz, took on new historic importance when the allies marched (h rough the massive pile of masonry winch dominates all I'aris and moved down the Champs Elysees toward the Place de la Concorde. Con-corde. The place of honor in the procession was not accorded to the generals anil the smartly equipped troops. It was given to a thousand mutilated soldiers who passed under the arch and in front of the reviewing stand, where stood President I'oincnre, moving haltingly halt-ingly and out of step, as best they could. Many were injured, some were blind, some were in wheel chairs nnd others were-nn crutches or limped along with the aid of canes. Few of them were uniformed. They represented all of the provinces of France as was indicated indi-cated by the variety of their civilian attire. They made no effort to maintain main-tain miliiary formation, but marched as well as I hey could to the airs played play-ed by the military band which led thv.u. A thousand wounded soldiers with crutches or in wheel chairs and clad, for the most part, in civilian clothes, led the parade, being preceded by a drum corps. Guns began firing at ".r.inuto intervals as President Point-are placed a wreath at the foot 'of the cenotaph at the Arc d'Triomphe thi; morning. This empty casket, place! there in memory of the allied dead, was also decorated by other wreaths, these being placed by Premier Clemen-ceau, Clemen-ceau, a French soldier, a French sailor, an Alsatian girl, a girl from Lorraine and Colonel Edmund Gros. This last wreath was in memory of seventy-two members of the Lafayette escadrille who lost their lives during the war. Marshal .loffre. the victor of the. first battle of the Mame, passed under the Arc d'Triomphe at 8:45 o'clock, lie rode alone. Behind him came Marshal Mar-shal Foch, the commander in chief of the allied forces during the final campaign cam-paign of the conflict. A storm of applause ap-plause arose from the vast throng as the two marshals passed the president's presi-dent's stand and moved down the brilliant bril-liant avenue. |