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Show ALL GERMANS CUT OFF LEGION OF HONOR Bordeaux, Nov 19 via Paris. 4 50 p. m. President Poincare issued a decree today striking from the role of the Legion of Honor the names of all Germans thereon. "When the French government bestows be-stows the decoration of the legion of honor upon foreigners," the decree reads, "it does not do so merely in recognition of Individual merit, but al-bo al-bo as a mark of homage to the nation to which the foreigners thus decorated belong." President Polncarc assorts that the Germans in conducting war are systematically sys-tematically violating all the rules of International laws by acts of cruelty and barbarism without precedent in tho history' of humanity which have excited against Germany the universal conscience. |