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Show MOHAWK INDIANS IN BONUS PARADE HELD IN NEW YORK CITY Mohawk Indians in Tribal Feathers All of Them Yanks. With seventy-five thousand former service men in line and headed by a flying column of automobiles bearing hundreds of wounded soldiers, the recent bonus parade in New York city presented Hn impressive spectacle as platoon after platoon of uniformed marchers swept down Fifth avenue amid a tumult of cheers. Thousands of members of the American Legion were in the ranks and posts sent delegations from Connecticut and New Jersey to participate in the formation. Many striking groupu appeared in the parade, one of them being a band of Mohawk Indians in tribal feathers and wampum, all of them Yanks who had fought overseas. Another feature was a huge gtm mounted on a decorated truck which by a compressed air device fired rounds of circulars urging the bonus for ex-service ex-service men. , Ninety bands aiong the i'me of march played such airs of war days as "Over There" and "Madelon" as the fo'-mer doughboyr nd gobs stepped out behind them. |