A JOFFRE JOKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 7, 8 May 1915, Page 4

A JOFFRE JOKE.

One of the leading French newspapers recently published a hater signed by General Joffro, the French Commander in Chief, and all the handwriting experts of France instantly set to work to read the great soldier's fortune. It was most flattering, for himself and France. All the experts were agreed that, oven had they not known (he 'author of the letter, they could and should have discovered in his bold "rV and slashing "s's," in the way he dotted his "i's," and failed to cross his "t's," the symbols of authentic military greatness and genius of the highest order. General J off re saw some of these letters, and laughed very heartily. Then he directed that one of his orderlies should lie sent to him. The orderly appeared, and General Joffre shook him warmly by the, hand. "My boy,"-he said, you are a second Xapoleon, and that Caesar had several points to learn from you." Everybody laughed, and the orderly laughed also when lie got over his blushing and learnt the joke. For the letter on which the graphologieal experts had loosed their propltetic eloquence was in the handwriting of the general's orderly, only the signature—of which the experts said little —was genuine Joffre.