ADMIRAL PAUL JONES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12547, 10 July 1905, Page 5

ADMIRAL PAUL JONES.

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PARIS, July 7. An unprecedented spectacle has been witnessed in Paris, when 22 officers and 486 bluejackets of the American Navy, accompanied by French troops, escorted tho remains of Admiral Paul Jones from the American Church to the station. Enormous crowds of spectators lined tho route. The body was transferred ti a warship at Cherbourg, and thence will bo conveyed to America.

[Admiral Paul Jones was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, in 1747, and at an early age went to sea and eventually settled in America. When tho American Congress in 1775 resolved to fit out a naval force, for tie War of Independence, he offered his services as commodore, and in 1778 visited the British coast in a small vessel, performing some daring exploits, including A descent on the Solway. The year after, commanding a small French squadron, ho fought off Flamborough Head a desperate engagement in which he captured two British men-of-war. Later on ho entered the Russian navy and as rear-admiral of the Black Sea Fleetserved in the war against Turkey. He died at Paris in 1792;, and his body was recently discovered after an extensive search by tho United States Government.]