Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-11 | Page 2 | Body of Poilu Given Honors

BODY OF POILU GIVENJONQRS French Pay Tribute to Dead of Great War on Armistice Armis-tice Day PARIS, Nov. 11 Official and civilian civil-ian Prance todal did honor to the memory of the nation's sons who fell during the great war the I eremonies lending a -oienm atmosphere to the celebration of the h ond annit ertii : of the armistice with Oermany. Pans, accustomed to observing its victory days anil national fetes wlUi rejo.clng. turned aside this year and dedicated the day to memory and recognition of the sacrifice made b hundreds of thousands of dead, who are sleeping In cemeteries along the battle lines Called trom its grave on the Held of wrdiin. the i.ody of an unidentified Prenob "poiiu'' was arred solemnly through the slreeta and reburlej undci the -rc de Triomphc Pollowlng the nag draped tun carriage on which ili -..ffln rested, walked President Millet-;md, Millet-;md, cabinet member and three French marshal Jnffre, the hero of the Marne Poch whoso genius no-COmpllshSd no-COmpllshSd the final defeat of -many, and Petaln, whose defense of Verdun will forever live in French song and story. In addition, FVance took occasion to remember that fifty years ago the country was at the foot of Germany, owed its very existence for a time to Neon Gambetta, who took virtual control con-trol or affairs in Paris when the city-was city-was btiegrd by Germans and latr succeeded in organizing armies to continue con-tinue the futile struggle against tho Teuton invaders The heart of iiani-'betta, iiani-'betta, which had been preserved since his death In 1 H S 2 , was Inurnsd in th Pantheon, the national shrine of Franc. A.i jr. i t i. ii.s.. i The procession formed in the 1 i...o Denfert Kocherau at 8:30 a. rn. was Jcmnposed of mutllutrtl soldiers and veterans of the 0Tc;ii war, then troops i from Alsace and Lorraine and then 'colonials. General Berdoulat. govcr-nor govcr-nor of Paris, followed. Faded and shattered flags of 1870,' recently retrieved from Potsdam and Berlin and carried b veterans of thC h'r . u v o-Prussian war, escorted the cr b iring tht. heart .i Oambetts who. resisted d OS PS ratSi) giving those ery! flag to Prussia in the hour of de-1 feat. A delegation of non-commissioned officers or all arms, separated thlS' group from the 135 gun carriages upon which lay the body of the un-kttOWn un-kttOWn ooldler President Mblcrund , and all member of his cabinet walk-, ed behind It accompanied by tl.e thnt, marshals. SALUTE U FIRED, As tru- pr.aesi!oii entered Koulevard' Bain lilhlel there wim heard In th distance from the forts aurruunding I Paris the first shots of a lOu gun au-jluts. au-jluts. The gun carriage in which rested the coffin of the unknown soldier at- traded greuter attention than the car bearing the h-..rt "f i; rubti.i Tl-body Tl-body was choiieti from among eight others last nlglit b PrtVSt ugust Tbln. who was a volunteer during the war. At the request of Andre Magi-not. Magi-not. minister of pensions, th veteran placed his hitnd on one coffin I) Dg In state In the Verdun citadel. At 9:30 o'chak the proceiutlon readied the pantheon where President Mlllerand made a short uddress. It then contlnuetl und reached the Arc U i ITrtomphe at noon