MUTINOUS TROOPS.
FRENCH ARMY'S WAR TROUBLES (BT CABLB—JBXSO UIOCtATIOV—COmiOBX.) (AUSTBALIAJf AMD *•*. CiBIiS ASBOaATIOK.) LONDON, February 15. In an exclusive interview with the British United Press M. Painleve, a former French Minister for War, discussing extracts published in London from Mr Churchill's book t "The World Crisis," said, "Mr Churchill states that entire French regiments revolted in June, 1917. and started to march to Paris, but in reality there was only a vague tendency that way. There certainly were spasmodic refusals to return to the ranks and vehemen* demands for leave, but in order to reduce thfse painful events to their true importance, it is only necessary to recall that discipline was entirely re-estab-lished after five weeks. Unhappily, Marshal Petain was obliged to authorise 23 executions, but it should be remembered that an army of 4,000,000 men and a front of 200 miles were at stake."
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18927, 16 February 1927, Page 9
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