FRENCH WAR HEROINE.
HELPED NURSE CAVELL. FOUND TEACHING CHILDREN. LONDON, Jure 4. Mademoiselle Louise Thuliez, who cooperated with Nurse Cavell in Belgium during the war, has been discovered living quietly as a school teacher, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Sketch. She hid British soldiers in the woods near Valenciennes, in spite of a German order to surrender them, then helped 250 over the border. She was sentenced to death, but was reprieved after a fortnight's suspense. Subsequently Mademoiselle Thuliez spent three years in a prison camp, until revolutionary German soldiers released her and her companion. She was awarded three French decorations, including the equivctlent of the Victoria Cross. Britain gave he:: the 0.8. E.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20897, 12 June 1931, Page 11
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FRENCH WAR HEROINE.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20897, 12 June 1931, Page 11
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