WAR MEMORY
FRIENDSHIP FOR FORMER CONQUEROR. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, October 14. In these days of Franco-German estrangement, a pleasing incident is reported from the village of Escantpolnts. near Malenciennes, which the Germans occupied in the wartime under an officer who showed many kindnesses to the inhabitants. He afterwards married a French woman and settled In the village. The villagers are now indignant at the officer’s sentence of 15 days’ for alleged assault of his wife. In addition to agitating for a reduction of the sentence, the villagers have
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19623, 18 October 1933, Page 8
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91WAR MEMORY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19623, 18 October 1933, Page 8
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