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Show . fINCE EXPECTS I TOSEEOLD GLORY Warm Tribute Is Paid to United States at Luncheon in Paris. PARIS, March 29. 4:50 p m. Rpne Vivianl, former prime minister and now minister of justice, represented the French rovernment at a InncheOD at the American club here today William Wil-liam Graves Sharp, the American ambassador, am-bassador, and a hundred other Americans Ameri-cans in Paris were present M. VIvlanI, In proposing a toast to the health of President Wilson, said be represented not only himself, but hi? colleagues In the ministry Alluding Allud-ing to the possible entrance of the United States into the war M. VIvlanI VIvl-anI spoke of the deep appreciation of France for what Americans already had done for his count ry. American pood will and American service for France, ho added, had been of great support to him as premier during the days when immense responsible ies rested upon him and his associates In the cabinet. "As sons of your fathers," contin ued M. ViVlanl, 'I knew from the first that it would be impossible for you to remain aloof from the strife in which we were not only defending our soil, but also were liberating the world." Eulogy of Americans. After an eulogy of Americans, their spirits, their ideals, their valor and their generous feeling toward the world. M. Vivianl said they were com-ine com-ine into the struggle to save Europe and the world and to join in a victory vic-tory for their ideals. "What Is this victory!" exclaimed If. VivianL "It is the end of autocracy autocra-cy It is to be the end of Prussian militarism. Nevermore can that return re-turn to invade, to burn, to Rill, to violate, vio-late, lo assassinate, to ravage, and to oppress. This is not to be a peace for one people, but for all peoples; peace for the weak against the pred-. pred-. atory sirong. The children of our children must be free from the shadow shad-ow of oppression." M. Vivianl also said: "It is necessary neces-sary that countries understand each other, not onl commercially but in ! tellectually. No people is comph o Every people requires others to com-, plete it. That is why the United States and France need each other." M. Vivianl then mentioned the indebtedness in-debtedness of France lo the Vnrted States for armaments which had kept . the war going. "It Is largely, thanks j to you," he said, 'that France has j had the means with which to fight." The minister said he expected to see American soldiers fighting in France j along.--ide the French soldiers. He ex-j ex-j pected (o see the American flag sym-1 bolizing in France the communit- ol ideals for which both countries lived. Here M. Vivianl was applauded for several minutes. M. Vivian! concluded by saying that together France and the United 1 States would have victory. He then ' proposed the health of President Wll- j I There was applause n b h . j mi pled b crie - ol "Vive la j France." in reply to which M. Viviani I .shouted: "Vive les Eiats-fnis." I no TURNS LEAD PIPES INTO FIRE BOMBS j NEW YORK, March 29 Wilhelm I Parades, fourth engineer of the German Ger-man steamship Friedrich der Grosse, II tied up at Hoboken. N. J., one of the six Germans on trial for plotting to destroy vessels carrying war munitions muni-tions for the entente allies, testified today that of 2,501 lead cylinders he had made aboatd the ship which were afterwards to be fire bombs, 170 turned turn-ed out to be "good ones." He worked on the lead pipes fourteen four-teen days, he testified, for which he was paid $15 by Engineer Schmidt of I the Friedrich dor Grosse. Parades de-l de-l clared he did not know what the "pipes" were to be used for. |