The Archive · 1926

Wounded's Appeal to America

Paris, July 11.

A party of blind and disfigured rvice men carrying flags headed procession of disabled ex-service men organized as an appeal to America to grant a more lenient debt settlement.

The streets were lined by large crowds. The procession stopped at the statue of Washington and laid 'a wreath composed of flowers of the Frene and American colours. A plaque was also deposited inscribed with an appeal to the Americans to reopen the debt question and not to content to an agreement which would result in French ruin and loss of independence-—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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