Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-04 | Page 1 | Women and Girls Welcome French 'Tiger' with Kiss

WOMEN AND GIRLS WELCOME FRENCH TIGER' WITH KISS STRASSBURG, Alsate, Nov 4. (By the Associated Press.) The solution I of the many problems the world is now facing may be summarized in the single sin-gle word "work," Premier Clemence.iu 'declared in his keynote sneeeh for the government party In the parliamentary elections campaign, delivered here to- i day I The speech also was his farewell i message on the eve of the retirement i from politieal life which he conteni j plates. His address, he declared, was not a message meant for Frar.ro alone, but was an appeal to the enure world to renew its labors as they had been performed per-formed before the war and produce for the world's needs. STRASSBURG. Nov. 4. This eity, the capital of reclaimed Alsace, extended extend-ed n warm greeting this morning to Premier Clemcnceau, who came here io deliver a speech intended, it is un derstood. to set forth the program of the government party in the parliamentary parlia-mentary elections' campaign The premier was met by Alexander Mllle-rand, Mllle-rand, the governor of Alsace, and oth-or oth-or potables, and was cheered by thousands of the populace as he passed before the guard drawn up in his honor. hon-or. A picturesque feature was furnished furn-ished by Alsatian girls In national costume tossing flowers as the premier pre-mier went by. "This is one of the greatest days of by life," the premier exclaimed "It was worth living for. Now I know I have not lived in vain." Brushing aside M, MlHerand and others near him, the 7S-year-cld premier pre-mier mingled With the crowds of Alsatians Al-satians who had broken through the cordon formed by the police, who were not too insistent in keeping them back Pretty girls virtually mobbed the "grand 'old man" of Prance, who save every appearance of enjoying :he experience immensely. The girls and women welcomed him in the Alsatian Al-satian dialect, which the premier does not understand, but their resounding re-sounding kiss on his weather-beaten cheeks, needed no Interpreter.