CLEMENCEAU IN WARTIME
VISIT TO FRONT-LINE TRENCHES FEW FEET FROM ENEMY Paris, November 26. The “Midi” relates that in April, 1916, the late M. Clemenceau demanded to be taken as near as possible to the enemy. He was conducted to the trenches at Commercy, where the Germans were only twelve feet from the French front line. Crawling on all four in semi-darkness, Clemenceau encountered a crouching sentry and greeted him rather loudly. He received an answer in the shape of a terriffie punch and a whispered growl, “Shut up!” When he was returning another sentry warned Clemenceau not to pass through a trench which had been mined. “You came that way. That’s good enough for me,” growled “The Tiger.” A quarter of an hour later the trench blew up.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 11
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