In holiday attire, the French Conjeession celebrated Jeanne aware Day on. Sunday, numerous public and private functions being held honour of the treat medieval, saint Similar "observance was made. in many other places in the Far East Where France is represented, In Shanghai the day began with review of the massed French military forces stationed here, at Rue Lafayette' and Route Pottier. Col. Roucaud, of Tientsin, commanding the Frenich troops in China, was the reviewing officer and members of the Shanghai French colony witnessed the spectacle from a special platform rected on the field. The forces represented included the Seventeenth Mixed Regiment of Colonial Infantry, the Engineers, and the Artillery. Simultaneously, the troops stationed fat Tientsin were reviewed there by 'The Buna generally was decorated with flags in honour of the day and Yoreign and Chinese warships in the Whangpoo wore their "holiday best' tire, In the French Concession the tricolour waved in front of hundreds of buildings and from the tops of all French tramcars.
Jeante @'Are, who died a martyr death in the streets of Rouen in May, 1431, is one of the more recent saints Jon the rolls of the Catholic Church. She was beatified on December 18, 1008, and subsequently canonized,
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