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PERSOKIEL OF THE lISSO11 .
SOME BIOGRAPHIGAL NOTES.
lit addition to General Pau, the distin.
guished soldier who is the head of the
French Mission, the delegation comprises
M. Andre Siegfried, M.A., general secretary
to the mission. M. Le Commanldant D'An
dre, aide-de-cainp to General Pau; 3.
Corbiere, horse and cattle breeder in Nor
mandy representing agriculture on the mis
sion; . LeIclercq-Motte, wool manufacturer,
of Roubsix; M. Mathieu. silk nfanufacturer,
of Lyons; and M. Bader, secretary to the
a sson.
H. ANDRE SIEGFRIED.
A native of Le Harre, M. Andre Sieg
fried, general secretary to the mission, be
longs to an ol1 Alsatian family, of -Mul
house. M. Siegfried, whose father has held
the position of Minister of Commerce in
the French Government, is a man of let
ters, being M.A., IL.B., of the Paris Uni
versity, and a laureate of the Academie
Francaise. He is also a professor in the
French School of Political Science, where he
teaches economics and geography. In 1898.
when onlW24 years of age, M. Siegfried,
who spews Enlisi almost withont wient,
commenced a tour of the Rritish Empire,
and during the next two years visited Can
ada, Australia, New Zealand, India, United
States, Micdioo, Japan, and China. Amongst
thebooksthathave made him famous is his
"Democraey in New Zealand,' which is said
to be one of the finest known studies of the
political and social development of a young
country. A very inferesting method of ex
plaining history by geographical factors was
initiated by M. Siegfried, who has also
translated from English into French the
hook "Verdun to the Vosges" (1916). Dur.
ing the war M. Siegfried 'as served as an
interpreter with the British Army, and was
awarded the Military Medal.
M. IIE OO~INDANDT D ANDRE.
Commandant Felix D Andre. aide-de-camp
to General Pan, was born in 16b7. and is
a descendant of a family of soldiers. The
commandant is a distinguished soldier him
self, and has won a high position as a
military writer, his works on shooting hav
ing become text books. He has rendered
notable service on the field in the presen
war, and during the bitter fighting of 1914
he won the Legion of Honour. A division
of which his men formed a part decided the
victory of the Marne by pushing back von
Klnuck. Twice wounded in September, the
commandant was unable to resume his com
mand until May, 1915. Two days later be
attacked the Germans in the Ailly Wood,
and having reached the fifth enemy trench
his men defended it for three days without
food, water, or ammunition, under a burn
ing sun, and amid a pestilence cf corpses.
On the fourth day the commandant wa-s
made a prisoner, and for nearly two years
was kept in a German fort, from where he
returned to France through Switzerlaned.
Amongst the 15 members of the Com
mandant's family who hare given their lives
for France during the war (M. D'Andre
is the only adult left bearing, the family
name) is his brother, who died at Bit
shoote at the beginning of the war. Be
lovred by the 5th Chasseurs, which he was
coimading, when. he fell his men formed
a rnampart around his body in an attempt
to shelter him from the falling shells.
The Comanedant's father was an offoicer
in the navy and his grandfather was a
brilliant cavalry general. an intimate
friend of Lafayette, his grea' -grandfather
represented the nobility of Provence at
the Etats Generaux of 1789, and, as Pre
sident of the Constituent Assembly in 1791,
was the first s demand the abolition of
the prisileges of the nobility.
Many important offices have been held
by Commandant D'Andre. Visiting Peru
as a member of the French military mis
sion to that-country, he remained there
first as sub-director and latet as director
in-chief of all military teaching in that
State. It was to him that Peru owed
her preparedness at the time of hen diffi
culties with Bolivia. After a brilliant
career in Peru he returned to France in
1911.
_3. HENRI CORBIERE.
Representing agriculture on the mission,
31. Henri Corhicre, an agricultural engi
neer with a high reputation, is the head
of a very large enterpries at Nornant-le
Pan for horse breeding and cattle grazing.
31. Corbiere, who is about 50 years of
age, and who speaks English perfectly,
was responsible for the introdition of
Oxfordshire sheep into France. He has
seen war service as a volunteer artillery
captain on the French front, and later ii.
the Balkans, where he was with the
Salonika Army for 22 months. He was
awarded the Legion of Hloncur.
31. LECLERCQ-310TTE.
31. Leclercq-Motte who represents more
particularly the wool interests of the in
vaded provinces of France, is one of the
heads of the firm of Leclercq-Dupire, of
Rouhaix, the most important worsted
weaving millers of France A fluent
speaker of English, having been eoacated
at Beaumont College, England, M. Lec
lercq acted for a year as an interpretes.
to the British Expeditionary Forces in
France. He is a lieutenant in the dis
mounted curiassiers, and has been award
ed the D.C.31. and the Crcr de Guerre.
31. M3aRCEL MATHIEU.
Educated partly in England, 31M. Marcel
Mathieu, silk manufacturer of Lyons,
speaks English fluently. He spent the
last few months before joining the mis
dian with the British and A.nericsn
troops in France in the capacity of in
terpreter. M. Mathieu, who is hut 31
years of age, represents commerce on the
mission, but uamre particularly the Lyons
regions.
31. GEORGE BADER.
Well-known in Melbourne end Sydney.
3. George Bader, secretary to the mis
sion, who is 40 years of age is compara
tively an old resident of Australia, where
he has spent 13 years of his life. After
being first in Melbourne at the French
Bank, and 'then in Sydney with the firm
of Wenz and Co., M. Bader left Australia
in order to obtain French agencies to fos
ter commerce between France and the
Commonwealth. Just before he return
ed to Australia war broke oat, and he was
mobilised. He served with the French
Army-until hbe was selected by the late
-M. Metin to be secretary so the mission.
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