NAZIS RESISTED BY DAME OF SARK
. .*— . ■ LONDON, May 14. The Dame of Sark, grey-haired, middle-aged Mrs Robert Hathaway, told correspondents with the relieving forces how she had' resisted the German occupation troops’ intrusions on her authority, and finally dominated them. . .. , .. "I fought them all the way,” she said. “They left me my jurisdiction, but their demands for food grew and grew. They evacuated the Island’s'people in a most scandalous way, including my husband. They took women aged up to 65 and* one woman with her nine children." , _ . With’ the liberation, the Dame and her seneschal now order the Germans to repair telephones and remove mines.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24567, 16 May 1945, Page 4
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