FRENCH GENERALS WOUNDED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15912, 8 May 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

FRENCH GENERALS WOUNDED

STRUCK BY SAME BULLET. ,

A French eye-witness gives tie folic ing account of how.Generals Manoiry 'and Do Villaret.w.ere wounded. Thejf

were, inspecting in r a trench, says tike writer, at which not, a single, shot ad been fired for several days, and at a/tine when absolute calm. was reigning auoag the two opposed lines. ■• They had rea|h;d a'loophole , when suddenly General'De Villaret stopped surveying the eneitij'a lines, and, turning towards General Manoury, 6aid: "Just have a 'look, ■General; What a curious sight it is," and handed his field-glasses to the other j general.

General Manoury stooped down, and 6urvoyed the enemy* through a loophole, and at that precis© instant a bullet whistied through the- aperture, knocked General Manoury's eye out, and fractured tin maxillary bone.

The same projectile struck General De ViUaret in the middle of the fo-ehead, but whereas General Manoury fell at once to the bottom of the trench, General De Yillaret thinking he himself had received no more than a slight blow from a lump of earth, remained standing, and concerned himself about his brother generah He subsequently walked a mile bfe lore he fell in his turn, stunned by the, pain. ' °