Vichy, May 11.
The whole French Empire today solemnly celebrated Joan of Are Day, with colonists, officials and natives all paying tribute to the Saint who gave her life for the unity of her mother country.
In Hanoi, Vice-Admiral Jean De-ceux, the Governor-General of Indo-China, delivered a speech in which he said that "the festival of our national Saint and heroine has now become the most important festival of our revived mother count "Joan of Are and Marshal Philippe Petain's France are today but one and the same France animated by the same faith in her eternal destinnes," Vice-Admiral Decoux added. "What this nineteen year old girl did has become today the duty of our has bérome 1 ire's youth.
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