A WAR DRAMA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 2

A WAR DRAMA

MORE ABOUT FOWLER MADAME GOBERT’S HEROISM FOUR YEARS OF ANXIETY LONDON, Feb. 15. Trooper Fowler who during the German occupation was hidden by Aladame Gobert at the village of Bertry was brought to Aladame Gobert’s house virtually under the noses of the German patrols and placed in a wardrobe, where with the exception of a month, he remained for four years. Never a day passed without some Germans visiting the house, and for a couple of years 20 were billeted there. They used to sit within a yard of the wardrobe, laughing and eating, and pften going to the adjoining compartment to obtain food. During this terrible time Corporal Herbert Hull, of the same regiment, was found secreted in another house and shot. The Germans commenced a search for others, whereupon Aladame Gobert dressed Fowler in woman’s clothes and took him at night to an empty bam, where he lived for a month underground, often for days being without food, owing to the vigilance of the Germans. How Madame Gobert fed and ministered to Fowler’s wants is told in detail by the "Daily Telegraph’s” special correspondent, who says that thousands of British imaginations and hearts must be stirred by this poignant drama. Such a heroine cannot be allowed to remain in straitened circumstances. The British War Office has already paid her 2044 francs, representing the extra messing allowance, to which she is entitled under the regulations for having kept a British soldier for four years, and Madame Gobert has bczcn decorated with the 0.8. E., by King George for, as the official record says, "Helping a British soldier.”