“THE SPIDER”
MYSTERIOUS FRENCH PATRIOT LEADER OF ORGANISED BAND LONDON, October 5. A mysterious figure various called “ Tlio Spider” and ‘‘The Secretary” leads tlie French revolt. His identity, says the 1 Sunday Express,’ is a complete 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 Frenchmen who are over-friendly to the Germans. “ The Spider ’’ earned liis name by climbing a telegraph polo in Hue Daugigny and cutting wires and swinging on them to the second story of a house in which he caught and strangled a German colonel. “ The Spider ” 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 Star, Issue 24008, 6 October 1941, Page 8
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