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Show LEJEUNE TO COMMAND MINESJ FRANCE Brigadier General Doyen Invalided Home; Force May Be Increased. WASHINGTON, May 11. Brigadier General John Lejeune has been ordered to France to command the brigade of marines there, succeeding Brigadier General Charles A. Doyen, invalided home. In the interim the brigade will be in command of Brigadier General James G. Harboard, who has been a member of General Pershing's staff. General Lejeune has been in charge of the marine training camp at Quan-tico, Quan-tico, Va. He will be succeeded there by Colonel Smedley IX Butler, who commanded the marines in Haiti during the recent disorder there. General Lejeune has been mentioned as prospective pros-pective commander of the full division of marines to be organized in France. |