FRENCH MYSTERY MAN
LEADER OF REVOLT
AIDED BY PATRIOT BAND
LONDON, October 5. 1 A mysterious figure, variously called "The Spider" and "The Secretary,"] leads the French revolt. His identity, says the "Sunday Express," is com-1 pletely secret. A big reward has been' offered for .his capture. The French ascribe to him most of the disappearances of German officers, and reprisals, like tarring and feathering, against bFrenchmen who are overfriendly to Germans. "The Spider" earned his name by climbing a telegraph pole in the Rue Daugigny, ' cutting the wires, and swinging on them to the second storey of a house in which he caught and strangled a German colonel. "The Spider" has gathered a band of patriots who have forsworn their homes and families to liberate France. They raided a military post at Chantilly racecourse 'by creeping through the woods at night, knifing sentries, and creeping on to the camp, where they knifed sleeping Germans and stole arms and ammunition. The' Mayor of Taupugnac, ", in unoccupied France, handed over a prisoner to the Germans, who took him to Paris and shot him. "The Spider's" band kidnapped the Mayor, who a few days.later was found trussed up, dazed and inarticulate, at the entrance to the headquarters of the German military police in Paris.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1941, Page 7
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