GALLANT WOMAN DEAD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 80, 13 March 1931, Page 5

GALLANT WOMAN DEAD

OUTWITTING GERMANS MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES SAME WORK AS NURSE CAVELL Press Association. —Copyright. (Reed. 5.10 p.m.)' LONDON, March 12. The death has occurred of Miss Annie Scott James, aged 56„ who was mentioned in Earl Haig’s dispatch for gallant and distinguished service in the field in recognition of her heroic deeds similar to those which brought Nurse Cavell to execution. Miss Scott James was a teacher of languages in Brussels in 1914, and despite German surveillance communicated valuable information to the British Intelligence Department, which gave her an honorary post. She assisted homeward 100 British soldiers who escaped from the Germans, firstly hiding them in her flat and providing peasants’ disguise. When half a dozen had gathered she led them on an 80-mile inarch to the Dutch frontier, where they were provided with rubber pads to enable them to cross the electrified wire. Mis*i Scott James*, speaking of her experience, recalled agonising moments listening until the escaped men got clear away. Despite German precautions she only lost one, and he was electrocuted.