TOUCHING FAREWELL
JGFFRE AND WEYGAND.
(Received 30. 9.55 a.m.) Paris, Dec. 29. General Weygand had a touching farewell from Marshal Joffre. The pair had been estranged for many yean owing to General Weygand being an enthusiastic partisan of Marshal Fcch, a fact which Joffre took to heart. General weygand felt he could not let his old chief die without attempting a reconciliation, so, accompanied by ex-Presldent Millerand, he went to Marshal Joffre’s hospital, where he found the Marshal unable to speak. “Whether he recognised me or not I don’t know,” added General Weygand.
Monsignor Maglion!, the Papal Nuncio to France, stated that Marshal Joffre had been given the last Sacrament,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 30 December 1930, Page 5
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