VISIT OF HOMAGE

Evening Star, Issue 20138, 1 April 1929, Page 8

VISIT OF HOMAGE

LA FLAME DETACHMENT !K

LONDON

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIAL

Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, -March dl

(Received April .1, at .12.-18 p.m.) Nine hundred members ol La Flainme, the French equivalent of the Returned Soldiers’ League, headed by General Gouraiid, Governor of Pans, who lost an arm in the war, spent to-day in London as a. visit of homage in response to yesterday’s pilgrimage ol 11,0(10 British Legionaries to Yprcs and Northern .France. The Frenchmen were all in mufti, and were wearing berets inscribed “ .La Flamme.”

'they assembled at Westminster .Hall, where they were welcomed most cordially. ' Speeches were made _in French hv - ~ Jcllicoe and Major-

general Glue. Then. headed hy .British and French military hands, they went lo Westminster Abbey, wire re General Gonraud laid palm leaves worked in lu'on/e on Iho tomb ol tho Unknown Warrior. Reforming, I he, procession ( then proceeded to the Gcnotaph. Gcneial Gonraud again depositing a bronze wreath and the French hand playing A*alliii's Funeral March, ‘Somme d Fiernel.’ General Gouraiid was joined hy Countesses Haig, Lord dcllieoe. and Naval am! militarv officers, aml took the aalute of the Pilgrims, who inarched past on tho Horse Guards parade.