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Show Officer Ignored Orders. Early in the war when Field Marshal Mar-shal John French and General Joffre were straining every nerve to hold back the German advance which they did finally at the Marne a French general, gen-eral, so the story goes, refused to open orders sent by an officer who had been promoted over his head. The message, like the dispatch in the Franco-Prussian war, was "lost" and a division, which was left without support, was almost annihilated. The story goes that the general was ordered shot. |