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Show GENERAL SARRAIL, IN COMMAND AT SALONIKl, RECALLED LONDON", Dec. R. General Sarrail, commander of the allied armies at Salonika Sa-lonika lias been recalled, according to announcement an-nouncement in Athens, says a Renter dispatch from the Greek capital under date of December 15. The successor of General Sarrail in command of Macedonian Mace-donian armies, it is stated, will be General Gen-eral Gulllaumet. General Sarrall's chief services previous to going to Saloniki were performed during dur-ing the battle of the Marne, when he held 1 the German crown prince's army in. the Argonne and prevented tho Investment of Verdun and in the Dardanelles, where he commanded the French expeditionary force after General Gouraud was wound- , ed there and subsequently relieved in August, 1915. Although there are several officers bearing the name of Guillaumet in the French army, It seems not improbable that the man selected to succeed General Sarrail may be General Guillaumet, who commanded the French armies at Verdun during their brilliant operations last sum-ber, sum-ber, when they completed the recovery of virtually all the ground that the Germans Ger-mans had won in 1916. |