CONTEMPT FOR DEATH.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 24, 26 March 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

CONTEMPT FOR DEATH.

FRENCH GENERA L AXD HIS ARMCHAIR. General Grosetti, whose name matches his physical proportions, Ins 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 front, who compared him to the Pamurai. Despite the ample target which he presents to the. German fire, General Grossetti has escaped uninjured. I hough ho lias lost the majority of his <;tafT. Once he rallied a wavering ivgim»nt 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 "fri de Paris" says that an English slaff officer, bringing important documents, found General Grossetti sitting in his usual expared position. The officer began to read his message, when the general interrupt, ed him and bade his orderly bring a second chair. The Englishman coolly sat down and continued li'.s readDKCISiVI-; FACTOR. Tlic 1?! ii i -11 Xavy lias, with the a:d of AHicd fli'i't-;, driven the German (la;. 1 : from tin high sen-,. Thanh- to that, tin- Allies ran d, aw the ir -aipplie-; from the wiiole fovhl, while Germany is suffering economic pressure, which in tho end 111nv prove the decisive factor in tho war. - Sir George Buchanan, British Ambassador at Petrograd.