FRENCH WARRIORS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1929, Page 5

FRENCH WARRIORS

A VISIT TO LONDON, (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. Nine hundred members of La Flame, the French equivalent of Returned Soldiers’ League, headed by General Gourand, Governor of Paris, who lost an arm, in the war, spent to-day in London as a visit of homage, in response to yesterday’s pilgrimage of eleven tnousand British legionaries to Ypres and Northern France. The Frenchmen were all in mufti and were wearing berets inscribed “La Flame.” They assembled at Westminster Hall where they were welcomed most cordially. Speeches were made in French by Lord Jellicoe and Major-General Clive. Then, headed by British and French military bands, they went to Westminster Abbey where General Gour.and laid palm leaves, worked in bronze, on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Reforming, the procession then proceeded to the Cenotaph, General Gour.and again depositing a bronze wreath and a French band playino- 'Vailin’s Funeral March “Somme II Eternal.” General Gourand was joined by Countesses Haig and Jellicoe and naval and military officers and took the salute of the pilgrims who marched, past on the Horse Guards’ parade.