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Show ENGLISH TROOPS HAVE ALL LANDED J London. Aug. 17. D W p m.The j official war information bureau an j nounces that the British expeditionary forces have landed sarely on the French shore. Frederick E. Smith, the Unionist member of parliament who Is acting as director of the official press bureau bu-reau of the British war office and i admiralty, issued the following stato-1 stato-1 ment to the English newspapers tonight: to-night: "Field Marshal Earl Kitchener wishes me to add that he and the country are under the greatest obll-I obll-I gatlon to the British press for the j loyalty with which all references to I the movements of the British ezpedl- .Jtionar force and their landing on the ( continent bad been suppressed. j 'Karl Kitchener is v. aware that I much anxletv must have Iteen Caused to the English press bj the know I-1 edge that thrs.' matters were beine Ereelj disi ussed in th- continental press and he wish' s to assure the I press of this country that nothing bUl his conviction of the military Importance Import-ance of this country of suppressing j these movements would have led him to issue instructions which placed the ! press of this country under a tempo-rary tempo-rary dlsad antage." Mr smith's statement continues: "Field Marshal sir John French arrived ar-rived in i'aris shortly after midnight on Saturday to convey the salutations oi the British nation to Prance The commander-in-chief of the British expeditionary ex-peditionary army was welcomed by several distinguished officers of the French general staff, the British am-I am-I bassador in Paris, and a number of French cabinet ministers s Sir John French, dressed In I his khnki uniform, stepped from thp I train a roar of cheering tor England I and France rose from the great j crowd Which had assembled, and the people then sang the national an-: an-: thems of the two countries. Sir John French drove to the Brit-ish Brit-ish embassy and his motor car all ! the wly through the streets was the renter of a human whirlpool Even ! the police were excited and they were i finally unable to restrain the popu-ace, popu-ace, which surged around the car shouting clamoroush : "'Hurrah for General French' Hurrah for England, Hurrah for, France!' Women held children above the. crowd to see the famous English; gen. ral, whose motor car was soon filled with smaii nags uuo ui .autr.-. "The coincidence ot the British ; commander-in-chiof'8 name being French is regarded as a happ augury for the allies. ' After sleeping at the embassy, Sir John French paid a visit to the palace of the Blysee, where he bad a long i ' conference with President Poincare lien the death or General Grier ' son from heart failure was announced ' today as having occurred 'while traveling trav-eling on a train' everybody in official circles understood that the general i had been stricken in Fiance His! death will ! deeply deplored by the ; nation -00 - |