‘TIGER” TOLD TO SHUT UP
WHEN CLEMENCEAU MET CROUCHING SENTRY
FRONT-LINE EXPERIENCES United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10 a.m. PARIS, Tuesday. The newspaper "Paris Midi” relates that in April, 1916, M. Clemenceau demanded to be taken as near as possible to the enemy. He was conducted to the trenches at Commercy, where the Germans were only 12 feet from the French front line. Crawling on all fours in the semidarkness, M. Clemenceau encountered a crouching sentry, and greeted him rather loudly. He received an answer in the shape of a terrilic punch, and a whispered growl of “shut up!” When he was returning, another sentry warned M. Clemenceau not to pass through a trench which had been mined. “You came that way. It is good enough for me,” growled “The Tiger.” A quarter of an hour later, the trench blew up. The Biritish Conservative Leader, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, has addressed the following -telegram to the British Ambassador at Paris: “I will be grateful if you will kindly convey to the family of M. Clemenceau' my deep sorrow and sympathy at the passing of a great statesman.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 9
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185‘TIGER” TOLD TO SHUT UP Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 9
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