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Show Leaves Los Angeles and Joins Forces in France, Though Already 67 Years' Old. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 25 How Georges Le Mesnager, 67 years old, native na-tive of France and citizen of California, Califor-nia, ran away from his Los Angeles home td fight the Hun, has just been made public through his wife, who has just learned how he had been wounded and of his getting the Croix de Guerre and the Medallc Militaire A veteran of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, Le Mesnager, despite his age, was anxious to return to Franco to fight the Germnns again when the great world war began, but his family pleaded that he was too old. He thought differently about it, however and sent his family for a week's out- ' " " I P?a ing at the seaside. When they re- :,m'h turned home, they found he had sailed iiln for France from New York. ; reclat It was not through him that his wife ; silgo learned he had been wounded, but biiot through other sources, for the veter- ' amc an, who is described as physically a ; tetfei man of iron, has similar mental quali- ; di)a ties. It was in a book on the war ', lie. that Mrs. Lo Mesnager read just how I much of a hero her husband was. ' 'fcrtiei "It is characteristic of my husband ' - c-3 ch that he should say nothing of being ; ' Sat wounded," she said. "He never writes j 1 fob anything about himself. It Is always , i S about the bravery of others. The only i &- information of personal nature I had Wq from him was that his weight had de- 'Ha creased, but ho always insisted he 5 was well. v Oc "He did write from a hospital, but jfr he stated that he was there on bus- iness. He might bo wounded a dozen fls times, but he never would talk to us ' about it." ,' ' |