THE IRREPRESSIBLE “TIGER.”
AN EXCITING VISIT TO NO MAN’S LAND.
TRENCH BLOWS UP BEHIND HIM.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received Thsi Day, H 0.30 a.m.) PARIS, Nov. 26.
The newspaper Midi relates that, in April, 1916, the late M. Clemenceau dema,nded to be taken as near as possible to the enemy. He was conducted te the trenches at Commeucy, where the Gormans. were only twelve feet from the French front line
■ Crawling on all-fours in the semidarkness, M. Clemeneeau encountered a crouching sentry and greeted him rather loudly. He received an answer in the shape of a terrific punch and a whispered growl, “Shut up.” When M. Clemeneeau was returning, another sentry warned him not to pass through tho trench, -which had been mined. “You came that way; it is good enough for me,” growled “The Tiger. ” A quarter of an hour later the trench blew up.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 November 1929, Page 5
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