VINDICATED AFTER DEATH
Croix de Guerre For Officer
(Received April 5, 8.10 p.m.)
PARIS, April 5.
Second-Lieutenant Jean Babelot was today posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre. He and 20 soldiers were killed in a lorry on the Western Front on February 19. Babelot has now bee:: vindicated, as it is revealed that the lorry on which they rdde did not take a wrong turning, as had been alleged, but was ambushed behind the French outposts.
PATROLS REPELLED
PARIS, April 4.
Tire French day communique states that contact units were active, especially between the Blies River and Vosges mountains, where several German patrols were repelled.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 164, 6 April 1940, Page 11
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