M ADAME LE CORPORAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 7

M ADAME LE CORPORAL.

STPifiANGE STORY OF FRANCE. SOILdiER IN WOMAN'S CLOTHE-3 *TEN YEARS A MILLINER. IBy Cable—Trrss Association.—Copyright.) 'Received 0p.m.l PARIS, February 5. The '-Petit PnriMon" relates the bis to '•■ ''I a man named Trappe, who lived in Paris for ten years as a xvoman. lie ivent m the battle-front as a r„rpo'al in 1014. xvas wounded in the hand, nm' xvas accused of self-mutilation in order to escape service. He xvas court marl billed, i„it the charge xvh- not proved. Trappe. transferred In another regiment a- a protest, and then deserted. He arrixed in Paris in woman's attire in order to avoid arrest. He has xvorked ever since in milliners' xvorkrooms xvhere only xvomo.n are engaged, and xvas never discovered.- (A. and N.Z. table.)