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Show VETERAN OF CRIMEA RECALLS GREAT WAR Special Cable t Tito Tribune, PARIS, Jan. $7. Major Baude, the only surviving French officer who vi ed through thr whole of the Crimen n war, i about to celebrate his eightieth birth -daj anniversary. He Is -tni remarkably little and heart and enjoying life at hi-beautiful hi-beautiful i tb at Neuilly-rBur-SoIne. He loves 10 relate the stirring Incidents of that memorable campaign. H wcl' ic-membern ic-membern how his brigane wenl nasi the British trOOPS at Hi end Of th haUir ,,r the Alms and how the tworprces cheered each otiiej-. raising bearskins and bonnets high on bayonet -point in iimtiiHl snlni. I On th lite in ihe trenches he is par-ticularlj par-ticularlj eloquepl The major and hi brother, who was an officer In another corps, were In the hablj "f n.aklng h dash across f dangerous spa-e between Che redoubts an a short cut tO their re- apertlvs ejuartors, but finally ii became Impossible to dodge half-spent shoi and spitting shell-. Nor has he forgotten th terrible storm which swept over Sebusto-pol Sebusto-pol on November il, ISK4. carrying away al) the r.-uts In the niil"d camps. Major Baude's reciment we oik- of the tii t to return i" Parts nfter th full of SebastopoL, and he had been transferred to th.- Imperial Guard when he was presented pre-sented wifh th medal by Queen Victoria m th Tuiierles garden. It ts medal with its ni faded blue and j allow sll'K ribbon and Its lince vdahps for Alma, Inker man .md the storming of Sebastopol. and Is great 1 prlzro by its own. 1. who also fojight with distinction In the I Prsuj) o-Germa n v a Major Baude m one of the founders and la still treasurer of an association called the Souvenir Franealse, wiiid, is known wherever people pi French nation-gilts' nation-gilts' ate to b mi with. Its object 'f ' the 'ndir.q of th graves o' BOldierS who ha e fallen ni the service or France, and a much care lis devoted, at least eotn-paratlvel: eotn-paratlvel: peaking; to the solitary rst ing phir ' 0 hero In Africa a to those of the t';eii.:):ds who perished in the war of 1S70 tyhether on active garvfea or in retirement. th!s sallnn eij-an haa Iimj I continually in iii thoughts 'ne comrades I whom be. loved o well. |