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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...training are to report at that time. Cross-country men are particularly wanted. In this sport also, it is hoped that informal races will be held with teams in the vicinity of Boston. The great use which has been made of distance runners in the French army as agents de liaison demonstrates the practical value of this branch of sport...
Lieutenant Colonel Azan was in charge of the training. He was assisted by Major de Reviers; Captain Dupont, and Lieutenant Morize who had been connected with the University R. O. T. C., and also be Captain H. Amann, Captain Loriot, Lieutenant Jean Jegou and Lieutenant Rene Bose who were detailed to Cambridge by the French military authorities at Washington. Lieutenant Giradoux, one of the original six officers of the French Military Mission, returned to France in the middle of August after a sickness brought on by his several wounds...
...month the work consisted of close and open order drill, gallery practice, and bayonet instruction under the supervision of Captains Cordier, Shannon and Bowen, and Sergeants Bender, Boyd, Brown, Kennedy and Lynch of the regular army. Gradually the officers of the French Mission--Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Azan, Major de Reviers de Mauny, Captain Adolph Dupont, Lieutenant Andre Morize, and Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux--took the regiment in hand and began the instruction in French open order formations and tactics of defense and attack. There was begun the valuable series of lectures which extended through the course, treating in turn such various...
...headquarters of General Joffre. At his own request he was sent to the fighting line, as commander of a company of the 153d Regiment. He has also been Major of the 69th and attached to the headquarters of the Sixth Army. He has received the Croix de Guerre, is an officer of the Legion of Honor, has been "cited" three times and wounded three times...
...Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, Ambassador from Great Britain; Jean Jules Jusserand, Ambassador from France; Count Vincenzo Maschi di Cellere, Ambassador from Italy; Almaro Sato, Ambassador from Japan; M. de Cartier de Marchiennes, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Belgium; Viscount de Alte, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Portugal; Mr. Lansing, and Mr. Hoover...