ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13982, 19 November 1917, Page 8

ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

LEADING GENERALS.

Count Luigi Cadorna, who relinquishes the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Italian forces in the field and becomes a member of the new interAllied War Board, is in his sixty-seventh year. At the time of'ltaly's entry into the war he was chief of tliv General Staff of the Army, and was Immediately appoinled' to the supreme command iii the 'field. General Cadorna, who was bom at l'allanza, on Lake Coiiio, after receiving his early education at a cadet school, was appointed' to . •the General Staff'with the rank, of lieutenant, He reached the rank of captain in ' IS7i5, and was ultimately appointed Chief of Staff of the Verona Army Corps. After commanding the 10th Besaglicri, he was promoted majorgeneral in I$!),S. He gained the rank of lieutenant-general in 1005. After commanding a division at Ancona, he.was appointed corps- commander at Genoa'. He was made Chief of the General Staff in 101-i. . * ■-.'..

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, wlio-'ropresmits (Ireat Britain, to.'horn in May, 1804, in ]%wortlis> town, Ireland. His military.careercomliiciieed in 15.84,. when he joined the lioyal Irish' Hides, transferring in the same year to the Hide Brigade. He saw service in Burma, IBSS-87 and 1887-SIV gaining -the medal with, two clasp's, He also served .in ,tlie South African War, being mentioned, in despatches four times, At the outbreak of the present.war lift held the position of director nf military operations at Ar.my Headquarters. - ./General' Fayolle, who is in .eoinmaml of. the .British and French troops' in Italy, commanded: the Fremiti Army Miieirparticipated.i« the Soiuimj offensive'inst year. When the war ,1)roko .put, he. was on, the retired list, ; l)ut\was a.t. once recalled to. service. General Fayolle. is an old and .-tried;comrade-: in-anns of General Foch, and, like him,' \ya? for a time. Professor of;.Ta|tles and Strategy aHhe ( '|eole'de GuiirrcM; :,