AMERICA’S WAR DEAD.
MEMORIAL IN FRANOE. ARGONNE OFFENSIVE RECALLED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. PARIS, August 10. From 5500 miles away. President Roosevelt to-day dedicated the Mont Faucon war memorial. The President spoke by radio telephone from his yacht Quantlco, in the Potomac River, Virginia. The memorial commemorates the United States soldiers killed In the Argonne offensive in 1918. It is the first of seven American memorials in France, Belgium and England to be dedicated this year. President Roosevelt’s voice was heard clearly on the former battlefield. The French President. M. Lebrun, and the commander of the American forces in France in 1918, General J. J. Pershing, were at the unveiling ceremony. _________________
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 7
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112AMERICA’S WAR DEAD. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 7
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