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Almost No Observance of Occasion Officially Vichy, Nov. 12.
Defeated France yesterday paid pious but sorrowful tribute to World War Dead in commemoration of the 1918 Armistice.
The only official observance was at Clermont-Ferrand, where Marshal Philippe Petain laid a wreath ani Sttended religious services. Nowhere else in France was there the slightest Official observance although everywhere the French privately and quietly observed the tradition by Praying and laying flowers on monuments which commemorated the 1918 victory.
The French press emphasized that in 22 years all the fruits of victory had been squandered through the decline of parliament and other democratic institutions, Marshal Petain left Vichy at 10 am., in a car accompanied by Generalissimo Charles Huntziger, Minister of War and M. Pierre Caziot, Minister of Agriculture and M. Yves Bouthil-Tier Minister of Finance, as well as Int Xavier Valliat, a war-blinded member of the Cabinet who repro-[sented ex-combatants in the Government.
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