ROMANTIC STORY.
YOUNG BELGIAN HERO. KILLS GERMAN GENERAL AND DON'S HIS UNIFORM. KNIGHTED BY KING ALBERT, Receive! 12.10 a.m.. Sept. Sth. OSTEXD, Sept. 7. Official.—Details i;f General Biteluv.-'s death show that a lad named Hailed, j im+l I>v siting 'JOO yards distant an ! officer studying a map. trawled amour; i Lis comrades' corpses till within 100 1 van!-:, tr.ri-t'nl'y aimed and ftr*•*!. and i officer iVU dead. Th" lad, rushing up di<ei>vet«i his identity, and r«> i moved Buelov.'s hoots, dotm-d his uni- ! fornt. and traversed tin- G< rmau lines, i On approaching tho Belgians he dis- ! c:irtled trie fur his own cap, - tearing to '«■ shot as a German. Notes i to the value 'if francs wen' | f'umd in Rttelow's v<st pocket. The ! King handed the amount to tho Red (,'ross. A pocket in the jacket contained memoranda of interesting detail* fir the battlefields and of tho < M»'f!iy's intention.'. The King knighted the lad. artd presented him with liue- ; low's horse and pocket book.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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164ROMANTIC STORY. Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 7
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