PETAIN ELUDED PRESSMEN, PAID SECRET CALL HERE

Marshall Philippe Petain, defender of Verdun in 1916, who came to the United States this fall, paid a secret visit to Harvard at a time when it was generally believed that he was on the high seas returning to France.

On being questioned, University officials declared that on the same day when newspapers stated that the French commander had left Newport on a battleship for France, Marshall Petain walked into University Hall with his host, whose identity has not yet been revealed.

When asked if he knew about the visit, Professor Andre Morize, former lieutenant in the French Army declared. "I am sorry to say that Marshall Petain came to Harvard absolutely incognito. I know nothing, literally nothing about his visit here. Ask me another!"