BELGIAN WOMAN AND PUPPIES
'An ambulance driver relates be was one day collecting wounded-iii : 'tho neighbourhood' of Ypres. "At one oftlie stations there was a poor.old Belgian woman with her legs'.badly shatter-, ed by a German shell which had dropped in lier cottage, I took the poor old .lady to the -hospice at the 1 nunnery, where the civilian wounded were- being , cared for.: 'When we got' ber insid'ei, and'the' nuns went to take the'blanket off her as she laid on. the. strotohe'r,> there- we: found three fluffy little puppies cuddled up to her breast. The. nuus told me' it' was impossible for them'to keep them there and asked me to take them. Two hours afterwards shells began to drop in tho town, and one of the first buildings to be hit was the hospice. A big shell landed right insido, killing eifjhfc and wounding twelve. The old : Belgian woman was among the killed, so she didn't live long to mourn her dear puppios." . •
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2582, 2 October 1915, Page 6
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164BELGIAN WOMAN AND PUPPIES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2582, 2 October 1915, Page 6
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