GENERAL JOFFRE DECORATED.
EULOGY BY THE PRESIDENT. PARIS, November 38. 31. Poincare visited the Army's headquarters and decorated General JoSr. with, tbe Military Medal. 31. Poincard said it was the em-feel' jof the highest military virtues. Generals and privates wore it with th« same pride. He paid a glowing tributt jto General Joffre's powers of organisaI tion, and cool calculating foresight., Ha was always prepared to deal with the unforcseon with a strength of Brind . which nothing disturbed, and fr serene cheerfulness which everywhere diffused ' confidence and hope. 31. Poincare addod: "France knotrs that in order to prevent a recurrence of the prcsont catastrophe sho must- bo in agreement with her Allies to finally abolish its causes. An indecisive'vie- , I tory and a precarious peaco would ex- : ■ peso French genius to fresh insults _\ from a, refined barbarism which assunied " tho mask of science in order tho better . = .to suit its domineering instincts.*' '."j
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15138, 30 November 1914, Page 6
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