THE GENERAL'S TEETH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16123, 11 January 1916, Page 8

THE GENERAL'S TEETH.

RECOVERED AFTER RETREAT. | The following story of "a distinguishedß general now commanding an army in ~~:C France" is vouched for by the Times of '- India, of Bombay — In the retreat from Mons he and his | division, after ten davs of no rest or sleep, i reached ? •" , ' "The pursuit slacken-:< ing, he joyfully snatched the opportunity of houses and beds to get between the i , sheets for a brief time. After just twenty >- minutes an A.D.C. rushed in with the news that the Germans were coming. Out ■( jumped the general, dressed in the dark i (no time for candles), sallied out, and con- ? tinued the retreat. Now you must know his .front teeth had been carried away in " the Boer war by a spent bullet, and "had S been replaced by a false set. But these in the hurry he forgot, and so the retreat went on to the Marne, where it was the;' l . Germans' turn to retire. After a fortnight the general was back in the same village where he had tried to sleep, but it was all in ruins, the house just being four?walla and a floor or two. Nothing daunted, an A.D.C. announced his intention of going back and looking for those;,:: teeth, taking some men to help him. He searched among the debris, and i there, under a mass of chicken bones and = champagne bottles and undamaged, were ; the preciots teeth. They were carried back in triumph to the general, who before :;i long enjoyed a change from porridge and I " slops" to a good square meal of ball/ ; beef. V