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Show PETAIN HEADS FRENCH ARMY. Is the Man Expected by Frenchmen to Win Decisive Success. Paris. General Petain was appointed appoint-ed as commander-in-chief of the French armies operating on the French front at a cabinet meeting on May 15. General Petain, who was a retired colonel at the outbreak of the war, Is the man to whom many Frenchmen linve been looking for the initiative which would win a decisive success on the French front. To him more than to any other commander now in active service with the French the legend of success attaches. He became a popular popu-lar hero and the idol of the soldiers for his defense of Verdun. |