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The conference also decided to establish a gendarmerie under the command of military officers selected from one of the small neutral States of Europe. At the same time the conference agreed upon the southern boundary of Albania. This line was a compromise between that demanded by Greece and that demanded by Austria-Hungary and Italy.
He fancied he was not attacked because of his numerous escort; he therefore left ten men and a torch in the chapel, told them to put themselves in communication, through the ruined window, with the captain of the gendarmerie, who was ambushed in the forest within a few feet of the window, while he himself, with two men, retraced his steps.
Two hours elapsed, during which time my other trains arrived, with machine-gun section complete, and the whole force were disposed to receive attack. The troops surrounded the house of the leader of the movement, but the bird had flown. This act disgusted the local chief of the gendarmerie, who assured me that it was German money and ought to be confiscated.
From time to time violent attempts of the mob broke through the line, pushed aside the horses, and men reaching the doors mounted on the steps. Merciless ruffians, looking in silence on the king, the queen, and the dauphin, seemed calculating on final crimes, and feeding on the degradation of royalty. Bodies of gendarmerie restored order from time to time.
Hastily forming hollow square the battalions of de Boigne awaited the storm; the infantry of Waterloo before the gendarmerie of Agincourt. The ground shook beneath the impetuous advance of the dust-cloud sparkling with the flashes of quivering steel.
The look he had on his disagreeable face with its white eyebrows and eyelashes gave the impression that he was sniffing the air. In the drawing-room the Colonel of the gendarmerie was saying to Doctor Svetilovitch: "And now, M. Svetilovitch, will you be so good as to tell me with what object you have arranged this gathering?"
Just as Rigou and Soudry were on their way back to Blangy, the count and countess, Emile Blondet, the lieutenant of gendarmerie, the sergeant, and the mayor of Conches were finishing their breakfast in the splendid dining-room where Bouret's luxury had left the delightful traces already described by Blondet in his letter to Nathan.
Go on living like a hermit on that great big estate? The idea appalled me. It seemed such a useless existence and in a few moments' time I had decided to turn the place into a hospital. But how and to whom should I offer it? I stopped at the Gendarmerie, where our friends were able to give me information. "The nearest sanitary formation was Soissons the Red Cross Society.
They had been proud to have as their guest the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, who was a French protégé, and this high ecclesiastic remained at the monastery till November 17, when Turkish gendarmerie carried him away. The Spanish Consul in Jerusalem lodged a vigorous protest, and, so the monks were told, he was supported by the German Commandant.
Oh, little son of Marie-Josephine! I told thee I warned thee of the stranger in Finistère!... Marie holy intercede!... All all are born to grief in Finistère!..." The incredible rumour that German airmen were in Brittany first came from Plouharnel in Morbihan; then from Bannalec, where an old Icelander had notified the Brigadier of the local Gendarmerie. But the Icelander was very drunk.
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