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Show 2 MILITARY SPIRIT I DOMINATES FRANCE Paris, Mar. 16. The new military' st 'r!t dominate a quarter of a million I I Frenchmen who today surrounded the! reviewing field at Vincennes. where 300,000 troops saluted President Poin-care. Poin-care. Throughout the great assemblage assem-blage groups of men enlisted for three years service amid cadences that sounded not unlike an American college col-lege veil. In other parts of Paris large anti-militarist anti-militarist meetings were held by Socialists So-cialists The favorite cry at these gatherings was an ehortatlon to "spit t'pon ' the 3-year-service plan. Several violent encounters occurred occur-red when militarist tried to prevent the display of the red flag Several persona were injured and many arrests ar-rests were made. |