SAVED DAY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11323, 29 September 1930, Page 5

SAVED DAY

PEASANT WOMAN’S ACT

NEW AVAR STORY.

PARIS, Sept, lo

Most astonishing exploits of the War were commemorated by, the unveiling of a monument in the forest near Cournay-en-Bray, in memory of the Battle of Rougemare-

After the Battle of the Marne the Germans despatched motor -lorries of sappers to blow lip tjie bridges on the lower S*eine, to. prevent the advance of French reserves. A peasant woman, now' 73 years of age, discovered the camouflaged lorries in the forest and hurried off to warn the gendarmerie, a handful of which, armed , with .antiquated weapons and assisted by the lcc-al schoolmaster and peasants armed with pitchforks,: hurried to. the spot. They attacked tho Germans, who beat them off, killing a ."sergeant, two gendarmerie and a young man who had driven them in his motor car. .

Tho Gormans drove off after and, being ‘.mistaken -for British, evaded ' capture' and readied the important bridges. "However, the alarm raised j by the peasant woman was. effective and one lorryMoad of Germans, which | was surrounded, surrendered. The jobbers Were captured jn a beet field j eating the roots, owing to" their cxi trerhe hunger. . -/V ~ /