The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1919, Page 3

_THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1919 77TH MEN RUSHED TO BREST AND ABOARD THE LEVIATHAN ON RAPID FIRE SCHEDULE .Gen.O’Ryan Had Red Tape Cut, and ' Other Troops Who Had Waited Long for Shipment Became Peeved, But New Yorkers Were Happy. By Martin Green (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New. York Evening World.) ON BOARD U. 8. 8. LEVIATHAN, In the introduction to the story of the return home of the 27th Divi- sion, I said something about the unpopularity of the division with some 25,000 soldiers who were in the camp at Pontanezen when the 27th reached there and are still in camp at Pontanezen. The feeling against the 27th on the part of the men who were left behind, after they had been in the Pontanezen camp for from two to six weeks, was due to a misunderstanding of conditions, and to properly explain how the misun- derstanding was born it is necessary to go back to the latter part of November, 1918, when the 27th, after playing its important part in the winning of the war, was sent down to the le Mang embarkation area for shipment home. On the map of France the reader will find Le Mans on the main railroad line from Paris to Brest, a little south of west of Chartres. The headquarters of the 2ith Division was at Montfort, a village about half an hour's ride by train eastward from Le Mans. The division was settled in camps and billets ecattered over an area of forty square miles to the southward and east- ward of Montfort. Camps and billets were comfortable, but Broadway was a long distance off and every man in the outfit from Major Gen. O’Ryan down to the humblest buck private was thinking of home. Gen, O'Ryan and his outfit settled in Montfort on Nov. 29. They had been promised that they @—<——<— would be sent home without delay. Christmas came and went; New Year came along, and the early days of 1919 began to drift by slowly through an atmosphere filled with mist and rain. Sunshine was an oc- castonal visitor. Suspense and ex- pectation would have told on disct- pline and morale had not Gen, O’Ryan kept the men busy. * Gradually the marks of the strenu- ous campaign in Flanders and Bel- gium were washed and scoured away. Drilling and camp rouline were kept division was marched in close forma- tion. The story of the: review may be touched upon but briefly, here for it \is already ancient history, but it may be said from information given to the writer by members of Gen. Pershing’s staff, and not by officers and men of the 27th, that it was the snappiest, most businesslike review the A. E. F. [has produced thus far. Platoon. by platoon, company by company, reki- ment by regiment, the units swept by while the Commander in Chief tood with smiling lips and shining eyes which advertised his apprecia- tion to all beholde Later Gen. Pershing passed along up sufficien to warrant the ¢X- the lin He stopped in front of pectation thift the men would pre- nearly every soldier wearing a decor- serve their pep and their pride in ®tion with the question: “Where did you get that?" As the soldier replied the General gave him a hearty slap on the shoulder to the accompaniment of the Pershing smile. And later in the day Gen. Pershing authorized Gen, O'Ryan to send to General Head- quarters a list of recommendations for promotions, Which acco! for a lot of new and glittering bars and maple leaves on the shoulders of many officers who landed in Hoboken from the Leviathan their organization. The great event of the camp in the Le Mans area was the review of the division by Gen. Pershing, on Jan. 27TH HAD BEEN EXILED FROM REST OF AMERICANS, Any soldier in the 27th will tell the world that nothing was overlooked in the way of preparation for this re- view. Gen, Pershing had seen the Memories of the review were quick- 27th but once before, when he paid a averwhelmed by a re wredd rush et desire to get yome. Several ordera to hurried visit to the British front for @ move to Hres¥ had been received and special inspection, Throughout the countermam Word went throu war the 27th had been practically the camp that the regiment would exiled from the American expedition- MY" ° a nd bru ar Lond eminask. ary forces, lirst at Spartanburg @nd movement was ordered. in the moan then when swallowed up in the time Gen o'Ryan had been busy British Army, being Somewhat in the Personally and diplomatically attack position of Jonah when he had aiine the red tape which is wrapped furnished room in the interior of the ‘The rules of embarkation provide! whale. that troops leaving Brest s through the Except for the swallowed up part Pontanezen Camp, while there shall be disinfected as to there was no resemblance between ferson, clothing and equipment, the the 27th und Jonah, because the 27th operation called ‘Melousing,” which was part of the British Army and will be described elsewhere in these @ vital part too when it came time to Gen, O'Ryan proved to the| attack at Mount Kemmel and along tion of General Headquarters the Hindenburg line that the 27th wag not in need of de- Preparation for review drove jousing. The regiment was free of thoughts of home from the minds of/ vermin. The health of the men was the men of the 2ith for a time. Next) better than the highest standards de- tv actual participation in combat manded by the regulations here was the big event of the adven- ture in \-ance—the exbibition to, DIVISION GETS A CLEAN BILL OF Gen. Pers” ug of an American divi-| HEALTH. sion from tue greatest Stato in the Union which had operated independ- | _ And so it came to pass that the 27th ently of bis control and had carried | Division, after examination in its own on as effectively, with British to| camp, was given a clean bill of health, right of them, British to left of them | being the first division or unit in and Germans in front of them, as had | Which inspection fadled to find even the divisions along the Marne, at St.|an embryo ‘cootie,’ ‘The word was M:hiel and, below and through the| passed that the division would begin Forest of Argeans, were the opera-| to move out of the Le Maus area on tons we exclusively Ameri- n. quite Sunday, Feb, 16, and would march | aboard transports immediately on the The rev eld on Jan, 22.)arrival of the train in Brest hen the nbled that morn-| ‘The writer, after a slow trip from ig it Was as spick and span and shiny |New York and railroad delays pecu- yrd's limousine Word to Fran reached the headquar 1 th any man t-|ters at Montfort on the morning of jash during the review) Feb, 13. Gen. O'Ryan was about to be shot at sunrise the next) start for Brest to complete the ar- In order to economize time the |rangementa for the movement of his troops from the trains to the ships |The great camp was alive with the | excitement of preparation for the trip SCORE OF INQUIRIES |) i'Snytite wuss heme, FROM A WORLD lenine the evening of Feb ayer loomed USED CAR ADVERTISEMENT PACIFIC GARAGE 216 Pacific Street Brooklyn, N. Y. and the Statue of Liberty visions of the stern France Percheron horses, fine poultry, excellent garden truck, fat pigs and cbeese of great virility. RENTING ||. Gen, O'Ryan got to Brest on Fob. STORAGE ‘ 14 and was told that his division could Expert Auto Appraising |not embark until March 5. Being a \diplomat as well as a soldier, the Gen- eral received the info: ation with a Feb. 28, 1919, New York World, Park Row, smile, But he immediately left Brest New York City. be “ | for his headquarters and on the way Gentlemen—I am pleased to write || 1, found it convent to st i | t 01 0 stop over you regarding the excellent results || at a couple of headquarters in the dbtained through your used car advertising column. I sold a Buick car on the second day the advertise- ment appeared and had at least a score of i. quiries. ; ‘Would udvise anyone having a used automobile for sale to try advertising it in The New York World for quick results, Yours very truly, MILYDN SANDMAN. embarkation area where there are stationed Generals who are in close touch with the Embarkation Branch of the Service of Supplies and gen- era} headquarters at Tours, where ali junits of the A. E. F. scheduled for departure for home are routed from their camps to New York. O'RYAN GETS WORD TO START HIS MEN ON WAY. knows just what happened, en, O'Ryan stopped off, or Nobod, where all pass | and) 7 TRACES WakawGEse CARD I -NORMARLEALE £O4 MAD «a DAO! TT Cam MAR TNE TANG Soeronrs what he sald to certain Genorals or what these Generals sald over the telephone to the high authorities at Tours, but he had scarcely reached his desk in his headquarters at Mont- fort when he was informed that he might make preparations to send his first train from camp for Brest on the evening of Feb. 20, send trains with other detachments at frequent intervals thereafter and that ai rangements were under way to care for approximately 10,000 officers and men of the 27th on the Leviath scheduled to leave Brest on Feb. 2 The news spread through the camp and if the people of that part of France are at all sensitive they must have felt deep chagrin at the enthusi- asm with which the American sol- diers from New York, who had been three months, bade them goodty. The necessary orders were given and the first train, bearing a battalion of the 106th Regiment, left the camp on time on the evening of Feb. 20. The men travelled in American built freight cars and they were packed in like sardines, and it rained! and jt rained al] through the long ride to Brest, but nobody uttered a com- plaint. The first detachment of the 27th Division was on the first leg of the trip homeward bound. Now there were resting in the mud- dy camp at Pontanezen, just outside Brest, at that time some 40,000 sol- diers on the way to the United States and of these about 25,000 were casuals --that is men attached to no particu- lar organization but travelling in makeshift formations, com casual officers who had been for one reason or another detached from their own commands or who Wd never been attached to any command. Perhaps one-third of these men had been evacuated from, hospitals. Some had been there six weeks, others five weeks, some four weeks, others three @ considerable number two. And da) living in their communities for nearly [ anded by | “DIE, BUT HOLD THIS POSITION; DON’T LET ENEMY INTERFERE” ‘The British and Americans had been holding themselves in readiness for the drive of Prince Rupprecht’s picked armies toward the Channel. It was perfectly understood that when it came the British would not expect to be able to stop it at the first line. Whon the 27th Division moved up to the “Dickie Bush” (Dickebusch) sector its machine gunners acted under the following standing order: 1, This position will be held, and the section will remain ‘until relieved, 2, The enemy cannot be allowed to interfere with this programme. 3. If the gun team cannot remain here alive, it will remain here dead, but in any case it will remain here, 4. Should any man, through sheli shock or other cause to surrender, he will remain here—dead, 5, Should the gun be put out of action, the team will use rifles, revolvers, Mills grenades and other novelties, 6. Finally, the position, as stated, will be held, Rupprecht's drive never came. 2 ‘BRA here attempt and ————————— ownel Brest and Camp Pontanezen and \ae continuously pattering rain failed to dampen anything but their help coal ship and to act as coal trii- mers and coal passers on the voyaxe | to Hoboken, the tire room force of Leviathan, the other was to obtain an acbie advantage in quarters and food. Soldiers on a transport are ted ment of the State. breakwater, about a mile off shore. No sooner was she stationary than tugs drew alongside, towing lighters after day they had been awaiting or- ders to pick up'thelr packs and rifles and maich down to the docks to| board the transports for home, NEW YORKERS FIRST ON “NEXT TO GO" LIST. Into this camp burst in the after- noon of Keb, 21 the 2d battalion f the 106th Regiment 27th Division, ot New York, and right on the heels of this bittalion marched the 3d and Ist battalions, They went into tents in a pariicularly muddy sector of the| camp, but the tents were dry, and fac h was «quipped with a stove, and jthe meais were good and plentiful on the w Yorke were mingling | with others who were veterans in the of re: de nce, on you're here for quite | a camp in poin “Weil, | rec a spell,” said aus al officer from | Seorgia young Captain of the| 106th, “We been here a long time} and we're the next to gc Where do you get that next to go | gtuff?" queried the Brooklyn Captain. “We're the next to go. We leave here on the Leviathan next Tucsday.” Conversations of this character were frequent in the next hour and the report that the New Yorkers were to be rushed through the camp without being “deloused or anything” and put aboard the Leviathan was received, first with incredulity, next with amazement, finally with indignation. ‘The headquarters office at the camp was besieged by casual officers and by officers of regularly organized | units which were under indefinite orders to embark. Offical confirma- tion of the statements of New York officers and men was soon forthcom- ing and the great camp blazed with indignation, The indignation spread to, Brest, where casual officers had been Mving in the indifferent hotels for weeks, waiting from day to day for the order to get jmarch to the doc backs the New York troops wer. cursed, reviled and anathomatized ‘They weer as popular as a police de- tail in Childs Columbus Circle restau- rant at 3 o'clock in the morning their men together and *Behind th At breakfast at a table near that occupied b: D. Runyon, the ry nent basebull correspon , and the writer, in the Continontal Hotel on Sunday morning, Feb, 23, three of the} to-be-abandoned casual officers. were discussing the situation wiih appro | priate profane trimmings. i tell you what it 1s,” said one, | and his statement was accepted by | the others and closed the conversa- tion, “these New York — — — have got Tammany Hall behind them, That's what did it, Tammany Hall,” In the mean time battalions of the 105th and 107th Regiments were swarming into the camp, and officers wearing on their sleeves the cryptic insignia of the 27th Division were permeating Brest profusely, Secure In their knowledge that they were to be first out the New Yorkers slm- ply paid no attention to anybody, Being city-wive, they advanced on the restaurants in close formation half an hour before the opening time {n the evening, and when the to-be- |ahandoned officers belatedly reached their favorite eating places they found their favorite seats occupied by supercillicus pith Division men oe apparently, had money in every et. oor three days the 27th Division neeemaaamimmmamaiiit ee Sw tours of dut during which no officer of the ship, from the Commander down, may tid them to perform toll of any character, pound of coal passing from the light- ers to the coal bunkers of the biggest sel afloat must pass over a shovel In rough weather, such as prevailed fered wound: |during the time the Leviathan was |¢XcePt In caso of disaster to the ves-| The division was divided upon reaching France in May and June Hlast in the port of Brest, it is not pos- | ny tle - »pl | ‘sible. to Iksh large. lighters cose! SOLDIERS WHO SMOKED ALSO !218 the artillery and ammunition, sanitary and supply trains aud the : aM, att ses they anust HELPED MAKE SMOKE, mobile ordnance repair shop going into the American Armies while the , over which the coal must be passed| During the voyage of the Leviathan | £00t forces went from Brest to the British training area in the north of either in baskets, carried by negro & great many other privates in :he France occupied by the 4th, 3d and 2d Britiah Armies. stevedores from the United States, or Various battalions on board did tours Not until the war was over was the division reunited, but the artil WO) by the laborious process of shovelling of duty in the stoke hold, but thoy x ‘it along a line of- me ed with Were not volunteers, They worked at/lery gave a good account of itself in support of the American and French shovels from man to man, as buckets belping keep up the fires in the boil-| divisions engaged in the St. Mibiel drive, the engagement about Verdun|Giants ninety fect tall were cre is of water ure passed in a bucket bri-/era becau in violation of strict) 4 ine aghting during the Mcuse-Argonne offensive. The art saat d by the “Food of th Cae |gade at a fire in a country town, orders, they essayed to smoke cigar-|@nd the fighting during the Meus nne offensive, The artillery casu-|ated by the ‘Food of the Gods,’ 1h first place, the coal is shoy- /ettes in their crowded quarters be-/alties numbered 318 in H. C. Wells’s fanciful book. elled into iron buckets in the hold of teen decks Only Division Headquarte one S$ ; the lighter, ‘The buckets are raised | While the Leviathan was coaling |, le Headquarters, the 105th and |37 Scientists have almost matched , ~ n the deck. Shovellers attac eo cocks 0! ore to her cavernou Gth Rs ents, two battalions of th y up the war; their personal pridc ldiek Gunns aad einer leak toe ene cabin and hold accommodations AGER FOG (HED ie S97 ' foes not overshadow the pride they |SrOWth can be increased by tie |into baskets or pass it along until it Cficers of the 27th Division and five }107th Regiment, und the 105th Ma- overahe F 7 | Sltamines Mature. coarpa ine Shea & Sik kara f field clerks, nine welfare workers, | 1 on the fel {9 having been a combative part nd. roaches a pile nearest the Leviathan, ua WeUArS, WOTEATE: chine Gun Battaflon. feUrNeS 0 eee ee ee eee eee eon etal patel Whast’la tisk Wi slasaata rom whic 3 thrown, si by Wodteyy ~ apt The othe ie Head- Fi | On oe Doctors and shovel, tranafer, into the bunkers Sein oe esa Oe ee a Peart se 1039 ital nde baba soy: ae sprint and where ye pen ports just above the |" i. ie, there were 68 casual om. |quarters and th a Boo sh annel to the Swiss border | (hpeat Flour tetany eg WR rs, 60 nurses, a casual field clerk, 65 welfare workers and 17 civilians, a total on the passenger list of 9,811 From lighters lying directly along- side the vessel the coal is passed from the hold in baskets filled by shovel-|hames. With the crew of approxt- Jers from gang to gang on platforms, | mately 1,900 men, the total number of and finally to the deck and across to| persons on the Leviathan was 11,711. the nearest open port. |" While the stevedores were ooaling ‘The Leviathan has been coaled in| the Leviathan a band on the upper the port of Brest in thirty-nine houra |deck played jazz music almost con: of continuous work, engaging the aer- |{inually. At intervals, when the tired vices of hundreds of men. To procure | ‘nusiclans were relieved for meals, or the Nieuw A miles from th by the tnfan| the 106th Division had volunteered to deck until the last lighthouse mark- last four w ; anne neo an HAPPY AVIATORS HOME FROM FRANCE; -DOUGHBOYS OF 105TH ON WAY TO. CAMP MILLS - POG OOD DOO S994-9 O98 OOHDDPOODDEDGD HEDTDOS DDE PFD DDREEDOODD TORTIE He SOE EOD CLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS = Great Battles, Three Engagements! tory of Its. Activities. | (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) uniforms. the Leviathan being short. a, COYTIaht, 1010, by the Pree Publishing Co (The New York Bvening Workd.) : ‘The Leviathan reached Brest in the| | bs) youn tears received no extra The 27th Division-which does not wish to be known as “O'Ryan's morning of Sunday, Feb, 23. She/5 or their hard and grimy work | Roughnecks or “New York's Own" a asninen ath New draws too much water to allow ef her | They were inspired by two considera ghnecks” or “New York's Own” or the “Empires,” but the 27th approaching the docks, and she came |t!0n8. One was to do ali they could York Division, U. 8. A., if you please—comes home with a record of to anchor in the harbor outside the|(¥ speed the departure of — the laden with coal, and’ the work of fll) Rinne Ge eat sleap in bunks in men. There was no doubt about what they would do when the Ume came | cup suans, Me (tableepcoets | am ing the cavernous bunkers was begun. | * m, Cvilsodored atarters in 7 : Tk Coating the Leviathan at Brest i athe hold.” "The Volunteer coal passers Of the approximately 17,000 men of the division comprising the in-| beaten, olk of | egg and pinch of oui Reiprowerishihi ta’ (ie Way Se conllng | Pornsortal dining ‘Toon, ‘lent vat fantry, engineer, machine gun and allted units which fought in Flanders | lee with sugar icing, mprovements in the way of coaling * ied 1 ships, a foolish operation, for every | sweee a“ ote and Rave eight hour and Belgium in the summer and autumn of 1918 almost 43 per cent. suf- | ‘Juiciest Frait in the World” s between sho: ing and a ve on the Maure ing part of the 107th is due Sunday on The artillery and ammunition ano supply trains will return later, the activities ducted in sectors distant at least 100|have won victories with alight losses 4a DOee TOSTH ONFPANTRN DEAVING FOR CAMP MIAKS | medals to the number of 9.38% had Beem, Jawarded to members of the Amerteas KING HINDENGURG LINE | Two Minor Operations—His-| Be “Martin Gian | Make a three-layer cake from ferred rule and for filling bring 1 cup Tropiko Grapefruit jui on the fleld of battle which ig not surprising to the people | The people of the State furnished the men and know the | to boil 36 Porto Rice Fruit Exchenge, 202 Freaklie St., MT Ea | - killed. ry small percentage was captured by the enemy. 3 or were A small percentage is registered as miss nia, while the id overwhelmed the invading hordes from Germany. Military authorities maintain that the achievements of a victorious army | cannot be gauged by ita casualties. | History records cases of units which And the rich nut-like flavor of Wheatsworth is truly delicious, Ground fresh daily in New York. AT ALL GROCERS. msterdam., and | of the artillery, con- F.H, BENNETT BISCUIT CO., N.¥, ne fighting area occupied | But this was a war different from any try, will be a fit subject other ever fought, and in its fina! = eliefs—for more than one| . nen it arrives, haued: 1 seacactad coal enough to furnish power for | P&t™ r si a for publication when presented new problems at transporting the 27th Division fe. [band was employed—the work on the HINDENBURG LINE GREATEST] ¢very phase of each engagement, for $ 00 PER DAY quired nearly seventy-two hours. under the influence of the muste, ACHIEVEMENT. | the Germans were contesting the ad- ° Naval merf say time could be saved] horne to the workers on @ raln-laden test. achievement of the| Vance with machine gun defenses seal by sending the Leviathan, on her re- | wind, the shovels swung unceasing! The grea ” n- | skilfully and bravely served pale turn trips, from Hoboken to South-| baskets 5 rapidly from hr a Division was piercing the Hin- | 4 And y served on a sca : mpton, where she could be coaled by |to hand, and frequently the negrve , and history will show/°f Magnitude never before encoun- | A High-Class Electric machinery, instead of to Brest, wh joined in and sang when a familar + was one of the hottest en i by assaulting troop: only plan which can’ be utilizer nd while the men far below were | sles encountered | heavy casualties 4 successful at Against this argument {s the experts |sweating over the task of coaling to|and military obstacles encountered | Ni) Mist Ferdaghes ful af ‘| 1 ence of the Olympic on her last voy-| music, officers ¢ Red Cross work-|are taken into cunsideration, Put, OnIe -haahh i over @ terrain age westwanl ers and nurses tangoed on the damp | while the credit of & ugh the |deemed imp by the enex She coaled at Southamton d|deck @djoining the band station, ry st point |asainst determined and carefuily ar 5 started for Brest, a trip, in fair aa | ‘There was a enix-up at the iond- | Hindenburg line at its reese pirate a ‘eae “"4 |For Two Days, Ask for Rental Depe, ; ther, of only a few hours. Before she | ing stations on the piers whioh ulti- | belongs indigputably 27th, the! | , agi Phone Bryant 5877 was out of the English Channel a fog | mately gave rise to two days of cou- |omeers and men of on do mn he engagement . “hes swept in from the sea and the Olym- | fusion on board the Leviathan, aie not cluim that they + war t, impulsive and overpower Vacuum Cleaners Specialty Co, ric, due 3 « and the r was assure ; fore noth eed be waic |Bi& due ip Br practice nine times | ‘Thetr sole ¢ 1 that they ace |7 re not need t 1 | 131 West 42d St. ry an compl wigned to them, + relation © part | 4 t which Division——the my m $ 4 2 the troop ard the be unit on the British| te daw transp: ve that it is | r sy Agee + | woe with the Hind best to send the n direct to| The tickets were of different colors, srl anadian and | ing line and consol tured rest, even thou must be | each rr nding to a com . n Wianders and Bele} ' 4 th mn werner | ued by the an, because | partment © hold, ‘The oocasion | gi d the Americ and French | Per ene Serene, ths ms | 0 he is in bor ebe is lof whic article ts the subject | fun, 4 eam and. east alan |ONEY 880 FIGHTING MEN LEFT| beyond tue evil influence of fo4s out- | was one of tho times when the theory |f°re ‘ AT ONE TIME | side. did not work in practice, |bravely and rapldly carried out the) 7. 41. ist day of the Now York | EMBARKATION OF 27TH MEN| Tickets of one color or another ran |plans of the great drive O80 BF) icon an regen <n 7 out ar ets of other colors were jGen, Foch, the Commander in Chief : hg TAKES TWO DAYS, | issued to the men, for th tthe Allied Armfes, The mex of t (Continued on h Page.) | GU LDEN 5 The transportation of 27th Division | that the departure of t Of the an om oF Dre bd | ‘ the Leviathan wa begun on Monday |fome compartinenta wore grievously | i re morning and continued all day Mon- |overcrowded while others were not |ing the westermost point of land in 9,383 FOREIGN MEDALS day, and from early morning untii| filled to capacity. The men were| France faded into the mist of the| Oy Aa Inexpensive Condiment late afternoon on Tuesday. |re-sorted after the ship got under | early afternoon. And if the thoughts Good with Ham ‘The Leviathan waa scheduled to| way, and how it was done will be! of the thousands who broke for shel FOR AMERICANS ABROAD Good with Lamb Stew leave Brest soon after noon on ‘Tues- | told elsewher: ter from the rain-swept decks could day, but unfavorable weather condi-| Every man who could move was on| have been transformed {nto words i tions and a shortage of labor hed | deck as the great Leviathan moved) there would bave arisen from the - impeded the coaling process, and eo | out of the barbor of Brest, through| Leviathan a mighty cry: Most of Them French War Crosse did not steam out of the harbor until| the narrow channel leading to the| "Farewell, I’rance; good luck to 8 Briti ahaa 1.30 o'clock in the afternoon of| broad reaches of the Atlantic and| you!” —518 British Decorations SUNDAY WORLD WANTS Wednesday, Feb. 26. In the mean | along the wave scarred, rocky coast] But many fingers would have been Awarded time, forty of the husky privates of| of Finisterre. All bands remained on! crossed during the utterance of the . PARIS, Thursday, March 6—Foreign 5