| Show IN ill TRENCHES HI AT 16 76 french veteran of 1870 Is doing his share lorm korporal for twelve years yeara may mayor of A dauxerre auxerre Aux rm erre Is still not hale and hearty and does his bit lk like the others other paris ib the paris pans journal official clel recent recently I 1 y published the tol fol lofting losing hon bon hablo mention 1 in army cord orders or C corporal to 8 tug ch charles via so en alerd under N no I 1 in no company any 92 9 2 bof T of the sixth regiment of en 1 1 second company of the to corps veteran soldier of 1870 0 chevalier or of the legion of honor enlisted as vol at a tor ir the duration of 1 the war our at the age of seventy six years asked to go to the treat front as a second supper sapper and miner takes part without any physical weakness in all the work carried on day rod and night under order ore fire of the an enemy my animated ith the highest conse cons clen an tiou and ad the most noble concep tion ot of his duty t toward oard his country and offers to his younger comrades a model discipline of dash and energy seeing this description of the old young nian man a correspondent of the Il lustri ion of paris set act out tor for the front to rod find him after wandering she about t the trenches in zigzag fashion the correspondent saw a rather small it man with white beard and ad the einsig a ala a of on an engineer gincer ri on his bis cap ro re mem bering stanley a description ot of h bow he met in the heart of africa and walked up to him saving mr me livingstone I 1 pro pre sume warl the correspondent accosted the engineer corporal swansea are you not of the engineer was completely taken aback at the idea that anyone would want to interview him but fina finally ily led the newspaper man into at a enter janean shelter which ch was very humid and ad fro from the root roof of which large drops drop of water tell fell on the corre correspondent t s notebook asked how bow he kept on eo well cor print replied that he did it by walking ha ing 9 been occupied sith w ath work on country roads road a thirty mile walk was as nothing to him foi twelve years yeara before the war he had bad beer been mayor of auxerre dauxerre Aux erre in the de da pertinent part ment of the tha I 1 loune oune before that as a civil vil engineer he had bar been en an gd in tour railroad ad construction and e es py ally on the railway from arras to staples for which ellich he offered the plans in 1873 1872 that year he dr droe e the first spade at the station of st pol en an ter monse moise in the same place where forty four yeara year later he has baa mine come to handle the spade spada and ad pick a as no an ordinary bapper pi in 1871 he belonged to th the army rea y of F faidherbe aidi berbe and use captain of engin em engaged in constructing defense works ork in the va valley aley 0 ot I 1 he was twice honorably mentioned crowed a then once onca for or having remained at his post when rhea the other workers red fled tearing fearing a german advance on attlee near arras end and again tor for having h vang saved a wounded odices by ca carrying r ry ag him to the rear or in 1875 mr sg S g entered ter the ervice rv I 1 ce of poule public roada road 1 in the our dor dogne where he remained six yea yeara and ad theto then took us k up the bame kind of wor work k in I 1 the he tionne jonne for twenty yea years el elected ted member ol of the miga municipal of auxerre dauxerre be soon boon loc became the leading man and was mayor of the to town n ir from to 1900 to 19 1912 12 H his is admonia adamini trot n of public roads roada and works caused him to be at attached tacked to the in lection pec tion department of th ministry of the lot interior bior such was the tha civil career of this modest set s and bra brave man when A he asked bout about his present arvice and whether his bin compact companions knew who 1 be was be sold eald they do don I 1 know much about me evil and I 1 I 1 am not going to tell ell them I 1 am ear rugen who does his bit of tr trench b work like the rest and ad that Is 11 these daya day what one has baa done in civil life dan d an I 1 count everybody la Is equal lu in the common effort when a man lias has physical vigor iam which can be u used ad there should be no an hesitation I 1 I 1 passed the medical examination and ad they dury were forced to take man me a th then I 1 had bad three months of instruction hig in n ovelt I 1 birt we knew noth nothing bout about in 1870 and in july left for the trout I 1 took part in all the work of 1 fur preparation let I 1 on for the drive in Sep septem tere br bar and on OD october I 1 I 1 aa owed named a peru tharo the w war r cross which the they y h have dinv inv given to me u surprised rp ed in me in for I 1 did nothing for that I 1 have done don a less than others who have been her here a since th the b beginning saw g I 1 know they are rise dec ora orating g my years but as my age go due does not cut count tb ith me I 1 ma am a little ashamed before my comrades I 1 T the h u wily only ad advantage logo of age go is 1 to in haie h a a little influence over the young er one ones when they grow impatient I 1 tell the them of 1870 and contrast it with what amt we a have done today we oho ho were not ready have sin stopped ped at the marne and the Y aser an enemy I 1 may sil on it in numbers and formidably or NN ft e have imposed on him gummed h our I 1 will he a has submitted to our law aw and ad when hen the time has come we wit will him bini |
