THE MIRACLE OF LE GATEAU.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16416, 9 January 1919, Page 4

THE MIRACLE OF LE GATEAU.

| : » Tho wonderful story of how a British i'.iTiilryn'.aii named Fowler w;io recently rescued in Lo Cateau nl'tor having been hid thoro for over four years by n ,'jr:ive French villager and his wife, has nov. received additional confirmation from au officer who has written homo to his parents in Jxmdon giving lurtiier remarkable details. Tins officer says that Few lor was actually arrested as a spy. so incrodulous were the British authorities as to his identity, and that, on .'icing marched through tho street with an escort, by a wonderful coincidcncc he i»at his old regiment, the —th Hussars, and was recognised by an officer who was with him when the old British Array made its great stand at Le Cateau in 1914. Wo give the story as told by an officer in Lo Cateau in his own words: — 'There -was one curious thing found in thio villago when arrived," ho writes; '"a chap who talked English, fearfully dirty, mostly clothed iu very old civilian clothes, and with a very, very old faded khaki tunic on. "Ho was arrested as a spy, and though he said ho was an Englishman was marched off down the street as a suspect. ''On tho way down tlio road the littlo party passed the —th Hussars. "The dirty, faded 'spy' suddenly seemed to crow in Btature and utterecl a shout, 'Hi, Mr , Mr , you can identify me,' and, to cut a long story short, this chap was a — Hussar (flie samo regiment) who had got cut olf in August, 1914, had beon. hidden in a cellar, had been fed by one old woman, and had never been caught in all the years he'd bocn here, and of emrso, had been reported killed years ago."