A COOL COMMANDER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2584, 5 October 1915, Page 8

A COOL COMMANDER

HOW GENERAL MABjCHAND WAS l- '■ 'WOUNDED. By Telegraph—Press Afsociatlon-CoßjTislil Paris, October 1. . "Calmly puffing his pips, like a company commander-, ' General Marchand.', placed himself at the head of a column m, tie advance between Perthes and Souain." This picture is given by a wounded private in the colonial who was alongside General .MarcKaiid; (of Fashoida fame) when he was wounded. "The General's bravery is a legend in the wholo division. When the order to advance was given on Saturday,General Marchand arrived amid a hail o£ bullets, and made a short speech,' which! •was inaudible, owing to the roar of , the. guhs.' . " ; "Our Colonial Division, with a Mokkv can Division, a brigade of Zouaves, and a brigade of the Foreign Legion, formed,: at the first of the war, were launched: against the trenches. The men covered!' 150 yards through, a perfect hell of shot and shell, and just reachcd • the first; Bosche trench when General Marchand!' dropped with a shell splinter in tho abdomen. Stretcher-bearers picked him up.. and took him to tho hospital at Suippes, where he is doing well. ,It is beliovea' that a cure is only a question of time." 1

'A. SUCCESSFUL OPERATION. - ("Times!' and Sydnoy: "Sun',' Sorrices.J

London, October 1. . General: Marchand has' undergone asuccessful operation. .

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