The Archive · 1938

Gifts for Troops Asked

On September 18

Hankow, Sept. 10.

Besides being asked to participate in solemn ceremonies throughout the nation on the anniversary of the Mukden Incident,. September 18, the Chinese populace will be urged to raise funds for the purchase of winter' clothing to be given to the soldiers at the front, it is reported here—Reuter. the rank of major in the staff of General Billotte, commanding in chief the French troops in Inao-China and was in command of the 3rd Bureau of the Staff.

Tu 1933 he commanded the mill tary district of Hagiang in Tongking, south of the Yunnan border, 'Back in France in 1994 was again a member of the staff of general lotte then general inspector of French colonial troops whom he accompanied in a general. tour of inspection in all the French' colonies in Africa in 1936.

He was nominated at the beginning of 1938 French military attache tu China to replace Colonel Sebatlé. He had been in China only a fe months,

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