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Show oo WREATHS ON THE GRAVES OF DEAD During thf war no one would have ventured the statement that within two years after the conflict the French would be placing wreaths on the graves of the German dead, and yet ' on Thursday, as the troops of General Gaucher marched into the newly occu im pied territory east of the Rhine, they m laid flowers on the gravea of French jjjm and German soldiers who had fallen in WM the war of 1870 and the late conilici. jKj In placing a wreath on the resting tP place of the German dead. General Gaucher said: fl "These died In obedience lo military MB orders." . JK Yes. hundreds of thousands of V fine fellows were slaughtered in obedi fj ence to the command of a perverted i J civilization whic h tolerated war and glorified the military Hundreds of j j thousands of homes today are deso lis lated because mankind, instead of fol lowing the wavs or peace, allowed overambitlou rultrfl to draw them into murderous attacks on each other. No historian will be able to conve) fifi an 'cpa ,ne horror Ot the last war jV or the misery it brought to the world rat It Is well ihat the French officers li have recognized the fact that the dead I iH soldiers of Germany, like the soldier KB dead of other countries, have been the Isjji victims of a system. |