Feo Oc Own. Comntsroxnixe Paris, Sept..14.
Paris now is in the throes of an American invasion. It is the scene of the annual. convention of the Legion, and _nearly '30,000 ex-"doughboys" and. their wives are coming. Most of them already have arrived, and the hotel, restaurant, entertainment, and taxicab interests. are correspondingly pleased, Mr. James Walker, the Mayor of New York, who hi reputation for being late for appointments, arrived punctually, thanks to the excellent train service, Parliament having voted visitors, arrangements of quite an exceptional kind are being made for them. The picturesqueness of important avenues is being saar ficed to temporary dormitories. and canteens, and a large and hideous wooden hall has been erected front to the Invalides. A bewildering amount of speech-making and banqueting already is in. progress and the Knights of Columbus are distributing free cigarettes and Postage stamps, just as they did daring the war The invaders playfully call themselves the "Second" American peditionary Force," and they eer-tainly will make their presence felt next week when they march in procession to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Reds, who threatened to make counter-demon-stations (la revenge forthe execution of Sacco and Vanzetti) have thought better of it, and now say their purpose can be served by! holding mass meetings in the burps, As the day is declared a Public holiday, there _undoutedly ill be an enormous crowd to cheer the Americans in memory of what] they helped to do for France and the Allies ten years ago. The more {intimate and human side of the visit will come later, when the ex-soldiers travel to eastern France and fought, tread the ground on which they
An Exhibition in Preparation A reminder of the Colonial Exhibition which is to be held in Paris in 1929 is provided by the announcement that' work on the Colonial Museum, the only permanment structure ' included in the plans of the Exhibition, is to be begun next month. The history of the enterprise up to the present hi not been one of smooth going. Marseilles has objected throughout, because she considers herself more representative than Paris in matters concerning France's colonial empire, which is) to hold imilar tines in 1980, was rather afraid of the competition of Paris. M, Angoulvant, a former Governor-General in the colonial service, who was made. Conmis-
Sioner-General and did a good deal of the, preliminary work, had_to resign in consequence of an express sion of opinion from one of the permanent committees of the Senate, of which he is a member, to the effect 'American capitalists, to visualize the advantages to be gained by erecting factories in this country} ind thus escape the present duties imposed upon their goods entering it, Mr. Pratten, in an interview, said that we' wanted British] industrialists to help us _and Japparently they were quite willing do so. He also made reference to the employment of two British subjects in this country where at the moment only one would _be employed in Great Britain. This naturally would occur ig to increased production, One view of the question whick capitalist is the present advance-of air service, Where Great and her immense industries] may be conveniently attacked by a foreign Power, owing to her access those self-same industries would not be so penetrable if placed jin the distant parts of the Empire. The Briton still could control his {interests in a major degree from the Jhoart of the Empire, while his projévetion would continue unhampered jin ease of war.
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