KEEPING FAITH.
PILGRIMAGE TO FRANCE. LONDON, June S. General Pershing, Commander of the United States Forces in the Great War, has arrived at Plymouth on liis way’to Paris. He is keeping' a promise given to troops during the war that he would visit France every year and make sure the graves were tended. General Pershing is making his seventy-first trip in defiance of his doctor’s warning that another trip to France would mean his death.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 9 June 1939, Page 7
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75KEEPING FAITH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 9 June 1939, Page 7
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