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Show - . - JflGHLY HONORED I Gen Pershing and Staff Loaded With Courtesies of Institutions Institu-tions of France. OFFICERS AT WORK Delegation Touring Principal Railroad Centers to Inspect Transportation Facilities. PARIS. June 15.-;The French Academy Acad-emy has resolved that its officers shall wait on General Pershing withi greeting greet-ing from tho academy and -invito him to attend a public reception on June 28. Tho American general and his staff were the guests of Marshal Joffre at lunch today at the military club. While tho American general is being loaded with honors in Paris his subordinates sub-ordinates are already to work. A delegation dele-gation of American officers, accompanied accompan-ied by a French staff officer, has begun be-gun a tour of the principal railroad centers to inspect the French transport trans-port organization. Pershing Attending to Business. PARIS, June 15. Although General Pershing's first day in Paris was naturally nat-urally filled to overflowing with social affairs, ho managed nevertheless to utilize odd moments for business. It is understood that he will soon leave for an extended trip to the front. Following his attendance at tho chamber of deputies the general and his staff motored to an aviation ftold to watch aerial evolutions of French experts. The French airmen outdid themselves in performing1 spirals, loop-the-loops and other tricks that frankly astonished the Americans, who admitted admit-ted afterwards that they had never seen such feats "in aviation. After an hour with the aviators General Pershing Per-shing returned to Paris and conferred with tho minister of marine. He then rested briefly while tho ever enthusiastic enthusi-astic crowd waited patiently outsldo his hotel. After his rest he went to keep a dinner engagement with Minister Min-ister of War Palnlove. Whllo both meetings with the ministers min-isters wero largely of a social ordor, it is understood that they afforded tho American commander an opportunity to at least broach the work into which ho and all his oflicers are so eager to plunge. |