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Show FLEES II PAJK (I DONKEY'S BACK German General Makes a Hurried Escape When He Hears Bagpipes. WAS COMICAL SIGHT Defender of Beaumont of FalstafFs Proportions Overburdens Over-burdens Animal. i PARIS, Dec. 9. The title of "Gen- eral Von Pajamas" will probably cling for the rest of his natural life to the German general who was in oemmand of the defense of Beaumont, if tho story of his precipitate flight from that' hamlet ham-let finds its way through the Teuton ' lines. The German commander was a man of FalstafFs proportions, who arrived at Beaumont eight days before the town fell into the hands of the British. His baggage train unloaded before I the doors or a Beaumont distillery, the place the general selected as his headquarters. head-quarters. Safely installed in the cellar of the ancient building, the doughty general proceeded to make himself thoroughly at home. Above the mantelpiece of the dining room hung a large picture of the kaiser. Beneath it his devoted subject had installed a wondrous keg -of Muenchner, flanked on either side by the cartridge of a "155" shell. It was later discovered that concealed in each shell case was a magnum of champagne. Arrayed in Pajamas. In this Spartan apartment on the morning of the British attack sat the Teuton general, arrayed in a wondrous suit of pajamas, calmly eating this breakfast to the tune of bursting burst-ing shells. Soon the marksmanship, of the attacking force showed a decided improvement and the general's orderly rushed in to inform his superior that all was not well without. The British were within the gates and down the street could be heard the splutter of rifles and wild yells of the Seaforth Highlanders. As the yells of the Highlanders grew nearer the general started on a frantic hunt for his tunic. Utilizes the Donkey. Alas, the tunic could not be found, i but tethered outside the door was a i donkey. Down the street came the war-tike war-tike chant of the Highland pipes and ; the general, pausing but a moment to wrap his scanty garb more . tightly around his loins, gained the back of the beast of burden in one wild leap. Beating the sides of the surprised beast the general was last seen flying through space in a manner that would , have caused John Gilpin to blush. |