Vichy, Sept. 27.
General Charles Huntziger, Alsatian-born commander of the French Second Army, which held the Sedan ge against tne full force of the an drive through the June Blitzkrieg, ud who then went to Compiegne d Rome to negotiate the armistice: was named Generalissimo and Commander-in-Chief of French land forces by named the former commander of the French forces in North China success sor to General Maxime Weygand, who took over from Generalis rice Gamelin as the height of the crucial battle of the Somme.
Gen. Huntziger is well-known in the Far East, for he was in Indo-between 1911-1914 and headed the French garrison at Tientsin from 1924 through the troublous times in rur hupa
JAME MYMAH
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