200 MILES IN DOG CHAIR
LONDON* sth June. Madame Grotef. who was crippled in a German, air raid in the last war, has arrived in Paris, having been dragged j 200 miles in an invalid’s chair by her < three dogs. This was revealed by Coun- J less Jose Laval do Chambrun, daughter of a former French Premier, who is | helping refugees. When the Germans drew near the invalid’s home she packed her few be- j longings with her in her chair, to which 1 her dogs were hitched. Another woman had six of her seven children killed when a German aeroplane machine-gunned a refugee train ' on its way to Paris. She was numbed ! : by the shock and grief, but got her J | remaining child to safety.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 June 1940, Page 6
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