FRENCH WAR HEROINE
HELPED NURSE CAVELL. FOUND TEACHING CHILDREN. LONDON, June 4. Mademoiselle Louise Thuliez, who cooperated with Nurse Cavell in Belgium during tho war, has been discovered living quietly as a school teacher, says the Paris correspondent of tho Daily Sketch. She hid British soldiers in the woods near Valenciennes, in spite of a German order to surrender them, then helped 250 over the border. She was sentenced to death, but was reprieved after a fortnight’s suspense. Subsequently Mademoiselle Thuliez spent three years in a prison camp, until revolutionary German soldiers released her and her companion. She was awarded three French decor ations, including the equivalent of the Victoria Cross. Britain gave her the O.E.E.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 7
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