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Show FRANCE PAYS ! TRIBUTE TO U.S. HEROES OF WAR PARIS, May 30. America's war dead in Europe were eulogized and their graves in all parts of France were decorated today, the second Memorial day since the close of the great struggle. American Am-erican flags floated in the breeze over the resting places of mere ' than 70,000 soldiers and allied organizations or-ganizations Joined the Americans in France in services in their mem- ory, while throughout the republic detachments of horlzon-bluc clad poilua acted as guards of honor at j lilt V.eillCll C3 VVMII O 11-7 LIILfU who fought beside them on the field of battle. The American Legion with the I army and navy patriotic societies, co-operated with the newly formed ' memorial day committee headed by Ambassador Wallace to decorate decor-ate tho little mounds In 497 burying bury-ing places scattered along the battle bat-tle front from the channel to Switzerland and from the Rhine ttr the Atlantic. At 125 places there were single graves of Amrelcan service men, but memorial day-services were conducted over each of these lone graves, some of which are in southern Italy and others in Spain. The French a. id representatives repre-sentatives of other of the allies took part In the ceremonies virtually vir-tually everywhere, while Marshal Petain, the French commander-in-chief, and other men of prominence promin-ence from the French army and navy and civil life ,delivcrcd ad- In some places the French women wom-en of the locality mado the day, almost one of their own, bringing tokens of their remembrance to place on the graves of the youths who fought beside their boys in the dark days of two years ago. In all the Catholic churches thero were religious observances of America's Am-erica's day of tribute to her dead, and In the provinces there were numberless local ceremonies organized or-ganized by the parish priests, or the population generally. In Alsace a children's chorus marched from one burying ground to another to sing beside the graves of fallen Americans, while their mothers and sisters, with dead of their own to mourn, placed wild flowers or grass wreaths on the mounds beneath which lay the American dead t |