Contempt for Death

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 9 April 1915, Page 3

Contempt for Death

General Grossetti, whose name matches his physical proportions, has won fame by his habit of sitting in an armchair when duty- calls him to the firing line. His contempt for death has become proverbial and won the admiration of a Japanese journalist, visiting the trout, who has compared hint to the Samurai. Despite the ample targetwhich he presents to the German fire. General Grossetti has escaped uninjured, though he has lost the majority of his staff. Once he rallied a wavering regiment by taking a seat amid a hail of ; shells before the trenches they were defending. General Joffre has had him appointed a Commander of the Legion of Honour. The “ Cri de Paris " says that an English staff officer, bringing important documents, fou d General Grossetti sitting in his j usually exposed position. The j officer began to read his raesj sage, when the general interrupted I him and bade his orderly bring a ; second chair. The Englishman : coolly sat down and continued | his reading.