Hide Article Text (OCR)
• • i’ ■ *Fit to PrintifW,mlt;a*.Dt'LXVIII. . NO. 22,501.ERSHING SAIIjSFOR HOME WITHi flead* at a expr of tleaves on the Leviathan After 11 said Exchanging Feeling Farewell With Marshal.OUR DEAD A TIE, BOTH SAY]...Allied Leader Pledges Affectionate Care of Fallen — Lauds Generous Efforts of America.thatlerncamPru!General praises France FireiTt•Intimate War Friendship Will En dure ”—Bida Journalists Good-Bye—Here Sept. 8.swiBREST, Sept. 1.—General John J.* T *Pershing, commander of the American Sxpeditionary Force, sailed from here today on the transport Leviathan for the United States. The steamer left port at 3 o'clock this afternoon.; Marshal Foch came aboard the transport shortly before she sailed, and made %a feeling address to the departing commander.“ In leaving France, said the Mar-“ you leave your dead in ourBatlSnBhal, *bands. On our soil we will care for them religiously and zealously, as bearing witness of the powerful aid you brought us. These dead will bring from America many thoughts of remembrancesuadstillmore strongly our already close union.Recallingthe hourshave lived together—some of themfull of anguishglorious—Istruck hard in the heart in passing withyou the last moments of your stay among us. On your arrival, you said: 4 Lafayette, we are here.' Allow a JTrench soldier of today to return thanks to you, and in a few words recall the work you have done for the rights and liberty of the world.Marshal Foch then reviewed the American effort, and continued:Praises Rise of Green Amy.• «This army, raised In ail haste, witn •till only elementary instruction, recently organized and commanded by young officers, without military tradition, passed rapidly into your hands. You have shown yourself to be in the largest sense organizer, soldier, chief, and great servant of your country, crowning the generous efforts and noble spirit of America with victory by your Armies.44 If, concluded the Marshal, “ the clouds of war should gather again in the future, would not these dead rise from their tombs and make their voices heard once more by a world which already knows that the same cause, the cause of Liberty, has united us since the time of Washington and Lafay lette? General Pershing replied by bidding farewell to France in the person of the Marshal, '* to her gallant poiius, to her patriotic men and to her noble women. You have done me the signal honor, he said, of paying me a final visit. It is fitting that you should be the last to whom I say farewell, because of our intimate service together in the days ofanxiety and victory. The American Army,in fulfillment ofwthe will of the people, came to France because w’e stood . for the same principles of right, and because the common Ideals of the two countries called for mutual action upon this foundation. Close comradeship and co-operation rapidly moulded our fresh and aggressive young manhood into an army, which under you, as the allied leader, was to turn the tide of war.“ To have fought beside the glorious Army of France, and been of your people during more than two years, has given our relations an affectionate touch and makes our parting one of sadness. But in these deep sentiments there is an abiding confidence between our peoples which insures to the world ©ur constant friendship and our common purpose in behalf of humanity. In leaving with France our dead, we are consoled to feel that their graves Will be tenderly eared for and become a eacred shrine that will still more firmly hind us together.Then the General and Marshal Foch walked arm in arm to the gangplank,Taltorstheirdiffilt;whicmentThiin a stair flam fifth floorgot lt;wind veloj Ne livedof tl all lt;Jumjthat Fire who in tl ad jo whic to tl out lt;way buillt; Sn whe: undlt; Holt to c the inchpeatloustheaim'Wond the sere was as 1beei talilt; of it Ion swu mor In f stocandthe;Tloutfeetbacdo1*waitwebacseeidarA wai Fir cat his out wo; ma a 1 of me for fin O'l to ma coi whrolt;ACTA %%C* Vl A I i 1 O V
Newspaper Details
New York Times
New York, New York, US
Tue, Sep 02, 1919
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
CO, USA 17 May 2020
Other Publications Near New York, New York
New York Stars and Stripes
New York Weekly Tribune
Barnard Bulletin
New York Times
New York Evening Times
