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Show NOTED LEGION GUEST BUSY Marshal Foch Nearing End of. Tour of Forty-Two States and Jaunt That Totals 16,000 Miles. When Marshal Foch sails for Faris and much needed rest, he will have traveled a total of 16,000 miles on his tour of 42 states as guest of the American Legion. Le-gion. More than 200 towns and cities will have been visited by the allied generalissimo, gener-alissimo, in each of which the local Legion, post and everybody in the -community put J"' forward their best to entertain the French hero. The Legion tour takes Marshal Foch from coast to coast and from New Orleans Or-leans to Minreapolis. Despite his seventy years, the eating of artistically artistical-ly gotten up banquets which are more or less digestible, and almost as many speeches each day as there are hours, the marshal will go back to France "feeling fine." He likewise withstood the ndininisf ra'ion of the detrree of LL.D. conferred upon him by 17 universities uni-versities nnd colleges. (V e of the niar.-hal's last photographs, photo-graphs, taken in an unguarded moment, mo-ment, depicts his "fighting face." ac-cordinc ac-cordinc to his aide's. American Legion members of the Foch party, however, declare it moreover shows the effects of the long strain on the allied lerder. |