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...English and graduating with a B. A. English instructor at a Paris lycée or high school. Marriage. Instructor of Phonetics at the Sorbonne. Much poorly paid writing of text books in collaboration with his wife. War. Served all four years as interpreter to a British artillery regiment. Then the great, unexpected appointment as Chief Interpreter to the Paris Peace Conference, the chance of a lifetime which turned a brittle, impecunious professor into the confidant of the Big Three at their most secret and vital meetings. Perhaps M. Camerlynck was even present on that celebrated evening when Georges...
Last week "General" Jiron was captured by the U. S. Marine Corps' most potent bandit-catcher-1st Lieut. Herman Henry Hanneken, a blocky, clean-faced young native of St. Louis, Mo. Lieutenant Hanneken had arrived in Nicaragua just after Christmas, detailed to the nth Regiment in the Department of Jinotega. There coffee planters told terrifying tales of Jiron and his raids. Hanneken went out into the wilds and, in his own mysterious way, returned with Jiron, handed him over to the Nicaraguan officials...
...through battle smoke and war fury. Both are Southerners. For each the Corps has a large, profane, unsentimental affection. Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional Medal of Honor for the cool way he seized Vera Cruz with the Second Regiment...
...Neville fought through Guantanamo in 1898; through the Boxer uprising of 1900; through the Philippine insurrection of 1901; through Verdun and Chateau Thierry, commanding the Fifth Regiment; through Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne to the Coblenz bridgehead. On the way into Germany, re-placement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule...
...effort was completely frustrated except at Ciudad Real, where a regiment of light artillery rebelled and occupied the small barracks of the Bienmerita. They placed artillery in commanding positions sweeping the avenues and roadways, and detained all trains...