Twenty-two thousand infantrymen, engineers, sailors and marines participated in the Army Day Parade today on the 22nd anniversary of the entry of the United States in the World War. Despite the rain, thousands turned out to view the brilliant parade.
President Roosevelt, who is at warm Springs, Ga. was absent but the reviewing stand was crowded with high Government officials, Army and Navy representatives and the military attaches from Argentine, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Japan, China, Poland, Russia, Britain and France.
The military attache from Germany, as usual, did not attend, while the Italian military attache appeared on the stand an hour after the parade had started, Particular interest was displayed in the mechanized machine-gun and anti-aircraft units and also in the motor-drawn pontoon bridges.
There was a mass demonstration of the fastest Army planes at Los Angeles.
United Press,
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