A MARSHAL FOCH INCIDENT.

New Zealand Tablet, 30 January 1919, Page 10

A MARSHAL FOCH INCIDENT.

Preaching in the Jesuit Church at Farm Street. London, Father Bampton, S.J., related an incident concerning Marshal Foch which he heard from a French chaplain. On the eve of the great offensive the Marshal had called together the generals of divisions to explain his plans for the morrow. On taking leave of them he said: “I have now done all I can; I leave you to do the rest; now I beg to be left undisturbed for the next hour.” Soon after an urgent message came through for the Generalissimo. Marshal Foch could not be found at first, until the chaplain, who knew the secret, conducted the messenger to a lonely chapel, where the Marshal was found on his knees in prayer,.