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Show UNUSUAL TRIBUTE TO-NJEVILLE French General, Who Defended Defend-ed Verdun, Decorated With High Insignia. Paris, Sopt. 15, 10:10 a. m. A trlb ute unusual foj an official French communication, com-munication, is paid to General Nle-ville, Nle-ville, the defender of Verdun, in the Journal Officlel today. Announcement Announce-ment was made on Wednesday that General Nievlllo had been decorated with insignia of grand officer of the Legion of Honor, and in this connec tion the following citation is published: pub-lished: - "Robert George Nievllle, general of division commanding an army, has for four months commanded the army that resisted victoriously the attacks of tho enemy, renewed without cessa- tlon and has supported heroically the hardest trials. He has shown in this command with the most brilliant qualities qual-ities of leadership an energy and force of character which have powerfully power-fully Influenced the operations in progress over the entire front "After having checked the advance of the enemy toward his objective which had become a moral stake of e the war, General Nieville resumed tho offensive, foot by foot, and by his attacks at-tacks succeeded in dominating the adversary ad-versary on the very ground chosen by the latter for a decisive effort" |