FRANCE’S GERMAN MARSHAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 August 1919, Page 3

FRANCE’S GERMAN MARSHAL.

4 ._____...._..s___._..___ l France has just made the discovery, peasant or unpleasant, according to View-point of each individual Frenchman, that Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace delegation, had as an ancestor a man who enjuyed the highest title France has to Collfer—fiel(l-marshal of France_ The Rantzau field-nxarshal was Count Josias who served under Louis VIII. His iz.ipetuosity in battle soon became lc-°,endary. At Arras he lost a leg and\seve:':-.1 fingers; a little later, at Pole, an eye; and finally, at Hannaecurt. he received four wounds. It was after Graveliues that he was I'. ised to the supreme dignity of marslal of France, but a little later he was suspected by Mazaln 01' having sxvnipathieg against the interests of the latter, and he was imprisoned in the Bastille. \7Vhen finally released, lis health was so shattered that he died shortly afterlvards.