HOW VERMELLES WAS TAKEN
A MUTE'S SERVICES. GERMAN" WOMEN ANI) CHILDREN AS A SCREEN. (Received Dec. 16, 12.40 p.m.) PARIS, Dec. 15. The Germans at Vermelles collected women and children in a school, wherein they placed machine guns. The French commander was in a dilemma. He had been ordered to assault the village, but feared to injure the children in the schoolyard. Fortunately the attackers noticed a deaf mute conversing with the children on his fingers. A soldier was able to attract the mute's attention, and, speaking on his fingers, directed bin: to push the children under cover. Meanwhile ten sharpshooters picked off the German machine gunners. A few minutes later Vermelles was taken at the point of 'he bayonet.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 16 December 1914, Page 5
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