SURGEON DIES IN PARIS
WOULD NOT HELP ENEMY. M. Thierry De Martel, principal surgeon at the American Hospital at Neuilly, Paris, committed suicide the day the Germans entered Paris, states the Daily Herald, London. As soon as he learned that the capital would not be defended, De Martel went to the American Ambassador, Mr. William Bullitt, and asked for his advice. Mr. Bullitt said he thought it desirable that he should remain. De Martel accepted this opinion, promising to stay Until the Germans arrived. He kept his word, but the next day the Ambassador received this telegram:— “I made you a promise that I would not leave Paris. I did not say whether I should stay in Paris alive or dead. In remaining alive I should be giving our enemies a crossed cheque. If dead I should give them a cheque with nothing to meet it. Adieu.” At dawn that day De Martel, after ( giving his last instructions to his colleagues, had administered himself a strychnine injection.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 9
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