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And like General Mangin, the great Joffre himself, Gallieni, Franchet d'Esperey, d'Humbert, and other distinguished leaders of the French Army, he made his reputation in the French Colonial service.
A sudden order from General Gallieni, the Military Governor of Paris, had been issued to each driver, who immediately ignored the upraised hands of would-be passengers and the shouts of people desperate to get to one of the railway stations with household goods and a hope of escape.
"You will have to talk to General Gallieni about that," said the officer gruffly. "But General Gallieni knows all about our plans." "Does he? I'm not so sure. However, I guess he will before long?" "Look here," said Hal, "what's the matter with you?" "Come, now," said the officer, "that's enough of that. March." Chester broke into a laugh, and Hal glanced at him in surprise.
"Now," said General Gallieni, "you shall come with me." "Where to, sir?" asked Chester. "Never mind," was the laughing rejoinder. "Mount two of those horses and follow me." Without further questions the lads obeyed, and, after half an hour's ride, found themselves before the Palace where so recently the attempt on the life of the President of France had been foiled.
It's plain enough, now that you speak of it." They marched along in silence, and soon were ushered into the presence of General Gallieni. The latter dismissed the other officers with a wave of his hand and turned to the lads. "Well, I see you escaped," he said, with a semblance of a smile on his grim features. "Yes, sir; thanks to you, sir," said Hal, also smiling.
"Open the door," he commanded, "or I shall break it in." "Hold on there!" said Uncle John. "I have the key to the door. Tell me what you want with those young men and I'll unlock the door." "I am ordered to take them before General Gallieni at once," said the officer more civilly. "The military governor!" exclaimed Uncle John.
Foch and Castelnau, and Manoury are no longer in command, while Galliéni, worn out in the service of his country, was borne on his last journey through the streets of Paris on a sunny spring day in 1916. "Even Joffre has been superseded in a military sense, though not as an idol of the nation.
General Gallieni, who followed the battle with the utmost attention, hurriedly came to the assistance of Manoury; he sent to him on the 7th and 8th the Seventh Division, which had just arrived at Paris, half of the division being transferred by rail, the other half by means of thousands of automobiles requisitioned for the purpose.
He was placed upright against a wall and was about to be riddled with bullets when his employer rushed up and told the Germans that they were going to shoot a Dutchman, which saved his life. General Gallieni, Governor of Paris, has issued a decree prohibiting newspapers to publish "spread-head" lines extending over two columns in width.
That and the peremptory closing of cafes and restaurants at ten-thirty reminded the stranger that Paris was still an "entrenched camp" under military law with General Gallieni as governor.... The number of women one saw at the cafes, sitting listlessly about the little tables, usually without male companions, indicated one of the minor miseries of the great war.
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