GERMAN EX-OFFICER
MARRIED TO FRENCHWOMAN PLEASING VILLAGE INCIDENT, Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, October 13. In these days of Franco-German estrangement a pleasing incident is reported from the village of Escautpoint (near Valenciennes), which the Germans occupied in war time under an officer who showed many kindnesses to the inhabitants. He afterwards married a French woman,'and settled in the village. The villagers are now indignant at the officer’s sentence of fifteen days for an alleged assault. His wife, in addition, is agitating for a reduction of the sentence, and the villagers have arranged a banquet in his honour when ho leaves gaol.
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Evening Star, Issue 21543, 16 October 1933, Page 12
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102GERMAN EX-OFFICER Evening Star, Issue 21543, 16 October 1933, Page 12
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