WAR DECORATION FOR A TOWN
The town of Bilche, in .Msace, a thirdclass fortress in 1871, litis been decorated with the Cross of the Lotion of Honour by President Pome,ire. Her story is a remarkable one, and not very generally '•mnembei'i'd. defended in 1871 liv Colonel 'IVyssior in command of n garrison of :1000 men, it hold up for a period of eight months. 10,(KM Germans. It was still holding _ out, forgotten by the central authorities, after Paris had capitulated and tho peace preliminaries had been signed at Versailles. Tcyssier was well owaro of what had happened, but, without orders, lio refused absolutely to surrender. It was- not until he received a message from Paris that he consented to leave the , town with tho full'. Honours: of war. He and his men marched awayiwith the (lap; presented them by the women of Eitcho under the fire of. the Bavarian , suns. And so Bitcho was never coiiQUer- .' ed, and to-day, .after many'years, comes tho reward of tho Cross of the Legion of Honour. ; Other veterans of 1870, Stras- - lionvsr..n.nH. Uhftlslvmrir.A-reeaivJnrr.jf at
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 7
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180WAR DECORATION FOR A TOWN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 7
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