GAS MASK GIRL.
I BRUSSELS, Feb. 20.— Awards have just ! been made to two Belgian girls, Mile. Louise d'Have and her sister, Mile Mario d'Have (the former is now % J_me. Clement), and 'posthumously to their father, M. Thpophije d'Have,. for giving to the Belgian General Staff details of the first Germnn gas lnnslt, ■Posing "'as a pro-German, M. d'Have was able to send his daughter to Havre, then the Belgian G.H.G., via Holland, with a design. qT the m(isk. concealed m her dress. At tho -Putph. frontier she was: searched for four -hours m vain. Had the document been (liscovctrd she would have been shot. ' Al'tpgi.-tlior Mile, Lou ise crossed the frontier '_o times, until at the end of 1915 she thought it would be safer to remain m Holland. - So well did the father poso as a . pro-German that his neighbors hated him, and their behaviour tor him hastened his death from heart disease. ■ At the armistice a crowd tried to .burn down his house.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15212, 10 May 1920, Page 6
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