History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . ball, volley ball, running, jumping, baseball, throwing and tug-of-war. With the object of encouraging athletics among his compatriots started the so-called Triangular Meet or Athletic Competitionsbetween the three Chinese camps. Banners were awarded to cham-pionship teams, and many individual prizes to the best runners andjumpers. The Cinema show was a very popular entertainment amongthe Chinese. FOYER DES SOLDAT JOHN T. MOORE Secretary A PECULIAR bond of fellowship was always manifest betweenthe French Polui and the American doughboj^ The polu
History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . ball, volley ball, running, jumping, baseball, throwing and tug-of-war. With the object of encouraging athletics among his compatriots started the so-called Triangular Meet or Athletic Competitionsbetween the three Chinese camps. Banners were awarded to cham-pionship teams, and many individual prizes to the best runners andjumpers. The Cinema show was a very popular entertainment amongthe Chinese. FOYER DES SOLDAT JOHN T. MOORE Secretary A PECULIAR bond of fellowship was always manifest betweenthe French Polui and the American doughboj^ The polui covetedthe doughboy, and the Y. M. C. A. and the French command saw thenecessity for it. Hence the Foyer des Soldat, which was nothing morenor less than a Y. M. C. A. for the French soldier. While an interchange of courtesy permitted a polui in the doughboysY, still in Le Mans, where both were found in such large numbers, itwas found more practicable to maintain seperate huts and the Frenchwork was directed bv an American 3. JF ? -TS! ^? 1. Polish Camp Y. 2. Y at Chinese Labor Battalion. 3 and I. Foyers des Soldat. In the Le Mans Area 137 MEMORIAL DAY Les fleurs pour les soldats Americanes! THERE- was a murmuring of little voices from the streets and thepattering of many sturdy little boots upon the cobble stones. Thechildren of France were mobilizing, armed with big bouquets of brightblossoms, to do honor to the graves of American dead. Patter, patter,patter—the tramping of many feet over the bridge, like Roman soldiersof old in regular formation, division by division, each led by his schoolmaster for a commander—the young soldiers of France marchedsteadily on. The bright bouquets were held proudly in their hands,their eyes were glowing and their faces beaming with happiness. It was Memorial Day in Le Mans. Just the sort of Memorial Dayone might expect back home—soft breeze, sunshine, the pleasant per-fume of flowers—the city astir in preparation for the
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