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Show NEW HEAD OF CABINET HAS ! RECORD IN IR Premier Lezgues Served as Minister of Marine Under "Tiger" OFFICIAL KNOWN AS LAWYER AND AUTHOR President Millerand Cheered by Throngs Following His Election PARIS. Sept 24 (By the Assoctat-erl Assoctat-erl Press ) Georges Leygues. minls;er I of marine In the Clemenceau cabinet I has accepted a call to the first pre-mlTt-hip under President Millerand's administration. It was announced thin i afternoon. He will likewise act as foreign minister It Is understood the other mlnls-t mlnls-t rs of the Millerand cabinet will re-i re-i tain their posts Georges l..eygues. who became minister min-ister of marine when Premlei e""iem- 1 ncenu formed hip cahinel In November. Novem-ber. 10 17. a few months after tne entry of the United States in the war. served in that part throughout tne remainder of the world conflict, contributing con-tributing notablv to the sneoess of inn allies in the long struggle they wacil afd the curbjnfc of German submarine subma-rine warfare. FI retire. 1 from minls- ' rial office last January with tie ; resignation of M. Clemenceau, M LfVgueS began his political carebf s a member of the cffgmbei Which be entered In ISM. Subs- in--. rh-, fie held posts In the cnhlneis of Dftpuy, Rlb'.t, W'aldecV-KouRseau :ind Sarri n He Is a lawyer ond a wlter of considerable prominence on historical, political economic and literary lit-erary subjects. His political affiliations affilia-tions have been with the (?rojp of tb Republicans of the left. He will he 02 vears of acre In N'ovemSe ' ' mi LI rnNr iii.kki;i PARIS. Sept. 2.T (By trie Associated Associ-ated Press.! The Bols de Kouloerne was filled with crowd thst cheered as the presidential procviion, nearlv three miles long, moved toward tne Klysee Palace In acknowledgement .f the greetings of the crowds, the president kept bowing and smiling ,M Millerand takes office for full V n years. In his election. M Mliler-ind Mliler-ind received tho third hisrhet vote , clven a French president the election ; of M. Thiers being unanimous. ;ind M Deschanel receiving '4 votes. Millerand's Mil-lerand's vote was C9S Out of sympathy for the Deschanel family, Madame Millerand did not attend the c-remonv rui Ing his brief stay at ni seo, M Millerand was decorated with the in-slgns in-slgns of the Grand Cordon of the I . -Hit. n nf Honor and the collar of the Grand Master of the Order, the duties j of which devolve upon him as presd-I presd-I dent. |