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Show GENERAL LYAUTEY WAR DICTATOR OF FRENCH REPUBLIC PARIS, Dec. 24. Upon the Bhoulders of General Lyautey, France placed todav the task of continuing her war. At a meeting of the war council, he was informed that henceforth "all questions concerning the preparation and carrying out of the war be under the direction of the war minister." minis-ter." This makes him virtually the war dictator of France. General Lyautey was recalled from his duties to become war minister and since has been widely mentioned as the best possible choice for the chief conduct of France's military operations. He enfovs the full confidence of the nation, which looks to htm, In the words of some Paris newspapers, "to answer with strokes of the sword the German bid for peace on German terms." |