A FRENCH HEROINE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 251, 26 November 1914, Page 4

A FRENCH HEROINE.

A French soldier claims for one of the French Red Cross nurses the highest decoration that France can bestow, the Cross of the Legion of Honour. It appears, from an article in the '' Morning Post,'' that as soon as the Germans entered Cambrai the wounded French .soldiers had a bad time of it, as the Germans seized everything for themselves. "But," continued the narrator, "one of the Red Cross nurses stuck by us heroically. She stole food from the enemy, sometimes flour, sometimes rice, sometimes haricot beans- —enough to keep us alive. But that was not the only.thing she did. She knew that all of us would much rather be shot than be left as prisoners in the enemy's hands, though nearly all of us had families. Besides, she was a patriot, and said, 1 If only you can get away you will be able to go on fighting against the Germans, and that is so much gain for France!' So she set to work and at last succeeded in collecting civilian clothes for the 108 of us who were well enough to escape. We put them on, and one by one, with our hands in our pockets, trying to look as unconcerned as possible, we sauntered right past the general and his staff in the market place and got out of the town.''