LATE M. CLEMENCEAU.
INCIDENT OF THE WAR. VISIT TO FRONT LINE. PARIS, Nov. 2G. The Midi relates that in April, 1916, the late M. Clemenceau demanded to. bo taken as near as possible to tho enemy. Ho was conducted to the tronches at Commercy, where tho Germans were only 12 feet from the French front line.
Crawling on all fours in tho semi-darkness M. Clemencau encountered a crouching sentry, and greeted him rather loudly. Ho received an answor in the shapo of a terrific punch, and a whispered growl of "shut up!" Whon ho was returning another sentry warned M. Clcmencoau not to pass through a trench which had been mined. "You came that way, it is good enough for me," growled tho "Tiger." A quarter of an hour later tho trench was blown up. SYMPATHY OF MR. BALDWIN. MESSAGE TO RELATIVES. British Wireless. RUGBY, Nov. 26. The Leader of tho Opposition, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, has addressed tho following telegram to the British Ambassador at Paris, Lord Tyrrell:—"l shall bo grateful if you will kindly convoy to tho family of the late M. Clemenceau my deep sorrow and sympathy at tho passing of the great statesman."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20424, 28 November 1929, Page 11
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