AMERICAN TROOPS REVIEWED
BY M. POINCARE AND GENERAL PETAIN j "LONG LIVE THE FREE UNITED STATES!" I Washington, September 7. Advices from Paris state that 11. Poincaro and General l'etain (Commander-in-Chief of the French Army) reviewed the American troops. M. Poincare alluded to tho anniversaries of tho Battle of the Marne and Lafayette's birth. The President then shouted: "Long live President Wilson! Long livo' tho free United States!" There was tremendous enthusi-asm—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Lafayette, tho celebrated French General and statesman, was born at Auvergno on September 6, 1757. Leaving France for America, ho entered tho Revolutionary Army as a volunteer, and in 1777 became major-general. Ho returned to France on a mission in 1781, and later became a member of the Assembly of Notables. He commanded an army against the Austrians in 1792, and in the same year left Franco to avoid the consequences of his opposition to tlie Jacobins. In 1830 ho was back in France, and commanded tho National Guard in the revolution of 1830, when lie was instrumental in placing Louis Philippe on the throne.]
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3186, 10 September 1917, Page 5
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179AMERICAN TROOPS REVIEWED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3186, 10 September 1917, Page 5
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