Paris, July 4.
The latest contribution to the history of the great war is a posthumous one. It comes from the pen of the late General Gallieni, in the form of memoirs. General Gallieni was a "'colonial" who had achieved great feats of leadership in Madagascar and other out-of-the-way places but was regarded, before the war began, as on the shelf or very near it and not fully up to the level of high European strategy. He had reached the age limit in April, 1914, but was retained on the active list in consequence of having held a chief command in operations in the field. He retired to St. Raphael, in the south of France, and began to settle down. His wife died on July 27, and she was hardly buried before he ceived a telephone message instructing him to get into touch with General Joffre, war with Germany being imminent. After the defeat of the French at Charleroi and the German rush towards Paris, Gallienj was placed in command of the whole of the Paris troops, and it was he who, when von Kluck's army swerved to the south-east instead of moving straight on Paris, conceived the idea of hurriedly making a striking force out of the troops under his command and attacking—the exposed German flank. Joffre agreed to this proposal, and it led to the battle of the Oureg, followed by the battle of the Marne.
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