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Died. Marshal Louis Felix Marie Francois Franchet d'Esperey, 86, hero of World War I; near Albi, France. Early in the first Battle of the Marne, he was made commander of the French 5th Army. As commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Balkans in 1918, he moved against the Central Powers from the port of Salonika, drove Bulgaria out of the war and forced the capitulation of Turkey. Aside from Petain he was France's only living Marshal...
...that pressed so heavily on his throbbing brow during the funeral of George V (TIME, Feb. 3), buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania in Paris reviewed France's Garde Républicaine. Later in a more comfortable cap, he received from France's oldest living Marshal Franchet D'Espérey, France's highest military decoration, the yellow and green Médaille Militaire, awarded only to commanders of divisions -and to private soldiers who have won it under fire...
James Rufus Agee, of Rockland, Maine. Donald Bruce Edmonston, of Winthrop. Stanislaus Pascal Franchet, of Boston...
James Rufus Agee, of Rockland, Maine. Donald Bruce Edmonston, of Winthrop. Stanislaus Pascal Franchet, of Boston...
Marshal Louis Franchet d'Esperey, 75, once the youngest General in the French army and but one day older than its youngest marshal (Petain), stopped briefly at Trinidad last week on the maiden Caribbean cruise of the French liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests...