Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1920 — FOCH AT SON’S GRAVE [ARTICLE]

FOCH AT SON’S GRAVE

French Commander Leaves Metz Banquet for Mystery Trip to Longwy. Metz, Sept. 27.—Shortly after midnight the banquet of welcome given here to the Knights of Columbus, at which Marshal Foch was the principal speaker, came to an end and the tired knights and other guests hurried to bed. Not so Marshal Foch. Accompanied by a single aide-de-camp, he as seen to leave the hotel about 1 o’clock and enter a huge, gray military automobile. “Situation must be getting worse in Poland” everyone said who noted the departure of the marshal, “or else he should not travel to Paris by night. ” Few knew that Marshal Foch was making a sad pilgrimage to Longwy, there to kneel upon the grave of his son killed in action during an engagement in the early days of the war. But Foch had to be back in Paris the next day and could not spare the time to travel by day.