GLORIOUS TRIBUTE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 192, 15 July 1939, Page 9

GLORIOUS TRIBUTE

BRITISH GUARDS MOBBED

CELEBRATIONS IN PARIS

GREAT MILITARY PARADE

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 15, 8.5 a.m. PARIS, July 14. One million spectators in the Champs Elysees alone, thousands of whom slept on the pavements all night long', witnessed the Pourteenth of July military parade, which captured the popular imagination more than any similar display since the Great War Victory March.

M. Lebrun (President of tho Rcpublie) took tho salute during tho three-hour inarch of a 10-milc column of 30,000 troops, 15,000 eavalary, 1000 tanks, armoured cars, and mechanised artillery. ThO city was lavishly decorated with tho British and French colours, and the people were wildly enthusiastic at the arrival overnight of a large detachment of the British Brigade of Guards and Boyal Naval units. They Lad the honoured place at tho head of the column, at which the crowd went mad with delight. FRANCTIC WITH EMOTION.

They broke the cordons and hold up tho march for 20 minutes, .shouting: “Long Live England!” “God Bless Our Friends!” The Guardsmen were forced to hold their rifles above their heads to avoid injuring tho francticafly emotional men and women. M. .Lebrun was surrounded on the dais by M. Daladier fPremierl, the Sultan of Morocco (Sidi Mohamed), members of the French Cabinet, French General Staff officers, Mr L. Hore-Bolisluv (British War Secretary), Dir Winston Churchill, Viscount Gort (Chief of the British General Staff). Sir Cyril Newell (British Air Chief Marshal), Admiral Sir Edward ft. G. It. Evans, and attaches of . nearly every nation in the world, including the Axis Powers. . . , Before the march 52 of Britain s fastest fighters and bombers flew over the city, failing to drown the roar of cheering from the crowd, atul then 350 French warplanes followed. Paris is gripped in a fever of patriotism, hailing the presence of the British atf symbolic of Anglo-I*icncli unity and renewed strength.