Show affre joffre goes fishing an american writer who saw general joffre at the front says he often goes fishing military plans tor for troops are evolved in this way the head of the grand army of france resembles oyama and grant remarks girard Gl rard in the philadelphia ledger in the war with russia the supreme commander of the japanese often went oft in solitude to fish his subordinates interpreted that as a good gen horace porter who was waa on grants staff during the lust last year of the he civil war said that the abo union chieftain did a lot of whittling in the wilderness campaign when he whittled ailed lie was thinking bismarck said lie he could tell in 1870 when all was well with the german army by watching von moltke if the chief of staff accepted the first cigar cagar offered him things were serious but I 1 if f lie he carefully selected one he knew that von mottles Molt kes Les mind was free |