BELGIANS SHELTER BRITONS
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, May 15. The British Charge d’Affaires to Belgium has called on M. Hubert Pierlot, the Belgian Prime Minister, to express the heartfelt gratitude of the British Government and people for the gallant action of a number of Belgians who were condemned by a German courtmartial in Brussels on April 14 to various penalties. Two of these Belgians, Adgard Lefebre and Marie Guerin, were condemned to death for having sheltered British subjects for seven months. Eight women and four men received various terms of imprisonment as accessories.
During last summer and the early months of last autumn these Britons were hiding in woods at Flobecque. The Belgians helped them to remain concealed and shared their meagre rations with them. When the weather grew colder they took them into their homes and finally succeeded in removing them to Brussels. The arrest of the Britons has so far not been reported. This devoted conduct recalls many acts of gallantry and devotion on the part of the Belgian population in the last war.
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Southland Times, Issue 24437, 17 May 1941, Page 7
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