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Meanwhile Marshall Petain was ordering his soldiers to squat down on their present position and wait until spring, when the present torrential rains will cease. Already more rain has fallen during October than the average total precipitation for both October and November. In the French sector, every road is a bog, every valley is a swamp...
...examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean, it is said, repeated the slogan of General Petain and provoked rebellion...
Concurrently with Spain's spectacular nibbling at the Riff from the north, the French forces under Marshal Petain made an advance, near Kifane on the southern war front, into virgin sloughs of Riffland never before occupied by Europeans. It was announced that last week's French offensive had gained all its objectives in record time. Then French officers discovered that their airmen, who had hastily made for them the only available maps, had mapped too optimistically. The French lines, when exactly plotted, proved to be a couple of miles short of the advance that had been claimed...
...Only in 1916-17, when he served as French Minister of War, did he cease temporarily to be an immediate personal power in Moroccan affairs. Last week, at 71, he retired as French Resident General in Morocco, left his command and its recent complications in the hands of Marshal Petain...
...official version of the matter, which is that he has waited to resign his post until recent French successes have made the fruits of his early labors again secure. His enemies frankly hint that Abd-el-Krim had nearly blasted the rich protectorate of Lyautey, root and branch. Petain, they insist, must have full credit for saving...