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Show I URGES' FRENCH TO JOIN I U. S. IN MEMORIAL DAY I RHEIMS, Franco, May 23. (By the! ff Associated Press.) Cardinal Lucon.i Is archbishop of Itheims, today had read ' in the. 715 parishes of his war-torn I diocese, a pastoral letter reminding J'i his priests and the people of the ap- il proach of Memorial day, sacred to tho 3 memory of tho dead in tho United J States. Referring to the part played J by Americans in the war, the cardinal H wrote: if ' "Let us join our prayers to theirs B on May 30, in memory of all the dead H of the American nation and especially H in memory of those who fell on the K . field of honor in defense of our coun- i ! The diocese of Ithclms comprises' 2 i the Marne and the Ardennes depart-1 afrta-di'i ments, in which the American troops! VB" experienced bitter fighting and heavy .'Jj losses. |