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...Iron-ore deposits of 2.5 billion tons, found south and west of Morocco near Tindouf and Fort Gouraud, could produce 15 million tons of high-grade (53% to 65% iron-content) ore a year...
Died. General Henri Gouraud, 78, oft-wounded, one-armed idol of the Army of France, hero of the bloody Gallipoli campaign, World War I commander of the Fourth Army (which included the 36th and 42nd U.S. divisions), Military Governor of Paris until 1937; in Paris...
Presently, in Casablanca, arrived the man whom great Lyautey designated in 1916 to succeed him as Governor of Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...
...Gouraud got Gladstone's voice, in a wordy tribute to Edison, and the voices of a host of others in London around that period-Florence Nightingale, Sir Henry Irving, Phineas Taylor Barnum. Edison's staffs elsewhere recorded hundreds of others. But within a few years the gramophone industry had become too preoccupied with ragtime and Uncle Josh to stick to the course Edison had plotted...
Some ten years after the late Thomas Alva Edison first recorded the human voice* on tinfoil in 1877, he sent the foregoing jingly "phonogram," on a wax cylinder, to Colonel George E. Gouraud in London...