WOMEN COMBATANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1944, Page 5

WOMEN COMBATANTS

INCIDENTS IN NORMANDY Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, June 14. Two French girls, aged 16 and 18, the wives of German soldiers, were handed rifles on "D Day" by their husbands and told, "Now shoot for your lives," according to a "Daily Mail" reporter who interviewed returned British wounded. The two girls killed five British' soldiers, as they sniped from a first-floor window of a house near Tilly-sur-Seulles. . - Corporal Charles Carme, a Tank Corps casualty, said he saw the girls at a window, and several of his comrades lay around wounded or dying. "Oh, yes. The girls died, too, when we stormed the house. They were good shots. They killed five of our men. They had been ordered to shoot to the last," said Corporal Carme. # Myra, a German girl, aged 29, who was captured at St. Mere Eglise and was reported by her American guards to be a sniper, has arrived at a south coast port, says an official reporter. Myra's American guard, who was armed with an automatic rifle, said, "I was told to be very, wary of this prisoner. The guards who handed her over to us said that her method was to smile at our soldiers and to pull a gun against them when they approached. She winged a few of them that way, so I am taking no chances."

KING LEOPOLD'S TRANSFER Bee. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, June 14. The German-controlled Brussels radio announced that King Leopold and his family were transferred to another locality because ' Laeken Palace, near Brussels, where they were staying, was endangered by Allied raids. ! I Confirmation has reached the Belgian Government in London that King Leopold was sent to Germany on June I 7. ' ' '