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Show Marshal Joffre a Catalonian. Possibly with more reason than the seven claimants In the birthplace of Homer, Catalonia makes nut a good case for asserting that Marshal .lofl're belongs to her by right of birth. The great estopper of the German first offensive of-fensive is a native of rerpiennn. where the Catalonian race predominated predom-inated in past ages and where today are found ninny families which si ill retain Cataloninn customs and language. lan-guage. Leading business firms of Catalonia, seeking to establish a tangible tangi-ble claim, have appointed a committee, commit-tee, which is to proceed to runs and present a sword to the great warrior, unless he fulfill h promise made at the peace conference that he will visit Catalonia. In which case the presentation presenta-tion will he made at Barcelona. ThN, of course, would be the occasion of h great celebration. |