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Show Officer Ignored Orders. KnMy in the war when Field Marshal Mar-shal John French and General .lofTra were slrnining every nerve to hold hack (he Cionnan advance which they did finally at the Marne a French general, gen-eral, so the story goes, refused to op.-n orders sent by mi ollicer who had been promoted ever his head. The message, hke the dispatch in the Fraiico-l'rus-sinn war, was "lost" and a division, which was left without support, was nlmost annihilated. The story gnes j Unit the general was ordered shot. |