Show I MARSHAL JOFFRE AT DEATHS DEATH'S DOOR AFTER OPERATION Leg Amputated When Gangrene Threatens to Develop DETAILS S SECRET E C R E T Doctors Refuse to Disclose Whereabouts PARIS Associated Press Prell one leg amputated because of gangrene developing in the ad advanced advanced ad ad- stages of aerts Marshal Marhal Joffre JoHre hero of the tho Marne Mime lay to tonight tonight to to- night between life and de death death and and his hil doctors appeared to hold little hope For his recovery There was an air of mystery about tho old heros hero's Illness for tor his physicians declined where th the p Is They disclosed however that hat the tho amputation was performed p last last- Saturday i and that Mme Joffre had persistently refused to permit announcement of at he her husbands husband's condition Th The Tho operation took place at the private hospital of St. St Jean De Dl Dicu lo u wh whOre ro I was taken when whon his condition be became mo alarm alarm- mI m- m I jug GANGRENE THREATENED Amputation was WM Imperative said ad Dr Boidin tho the distinguished d physician phy who has attended Ma Marshal Joffre 2 since n the beginning beginning- of ot his Illness several months ago The arteries were inflamed to such euch a degree the tho doctor said that gangrene angrene which often onen develops in inho th ho- ho advanced stages ge 5 of this disease threaten edthe life It was the tho right leg Jeg which was muI amputated arid and because US of of- tho p patients patient's pa- pa lents lent's advanced M ag age age ho he i is nearly and 19 79 and his gener generally weakened condition to be bo scant ho hope that pull pull through In a n. bulletin Issued this evening the marshals marshal's doctors said his condition condition condition con con- remained unchanged with the pulse rate raie 75 15 and the temp temperature 1022 degrees degrees' Marshal used d to like to go goto t. t to his apartment in the Rue de la Ia laPompe laPompe Pompe in Paris and Madame Joffre recently has s spent considerable time there thera redecorating the place In tho the winter he ho likes to go to the Riviera but his plans for forthe the usual vacation this year have been aban aban- In better days das tho the old gentleman liked I ke to stroll around the grounds stopping now and again to to phat hat with those he met Ho always alway was Continued on paso page 6 5 V.- V. Dangerously Ill ti t jiw t ti m C iSi u f Jo J f 1 i h f tL tLc rf c cv v k 41 f i. i 51 1 0 lit T AA f r. f Fighting Greatest Bottle Battle MARSHAL JOFFRE AT DEATHS DEATH'S DOOR AFTER OPERATION CC Continued from froni tr n page 1 9 a 3 good mixer and he liked the woods He lie has been an enthusiastic advocate advocate- of ot the doctrine recently pronounced pronounce by Briand that a man who wants to know men must first know nature Often Otten ho lie would drop in on lila his friends One of ot these was Warrington War War- rington Dawson formerly of or Atlanta At lanta OIL Go special of the American embassy who for tor several years has hns been k kept pt to his home borne at Versailles b by s a 4 partial paralysis CUT DOWN DOW WALKS But nut all these activities were abandoned when his' his Illness set In In- Gradually Uy he lIe was Wa obliged to cut down clown on his little walks and after aeter i a awhile while tho the arteries of at the legs be became became bo- bo came camo no so swollen that any move- move |