FOCH'S PRIVATE LIFE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 August 1918, Page 3

FOCH'S PRIVATE LIFE.

THINGS HE LIKES MOST

In an intimate character sketch of General Foeh which M. Ren c Barjean contributes to the "Journal," the" interesting statement is made that the name of the generalissimo is of Celtic origin, "Foex," which means "fire," and that he had the blue eyes of the Celt.

Foch before the war divided his time between his family and reading and eport. His favorite reading is history. He loves the works of the old French composers, ha-s a passion for antique furniture, and is particularly fond of trees.

His tastes are simple. Ho eats sparinglyj drinks wine and coffee, but no spirits, and 6mokes small cigars. He finds it necessary to light every cigar five or six times, and keeps an electric lighter in his motor car. The generalissimo's favorite recreation is hprs© exercise. He is particularly attached to a thoroughbred which he bought a. year before the war, and which is with him wherever he goes. Usually he spends his holidays at a little seaside place in Finistere. There he likes to talk to the young men, who have great affection for him.