WAR DECORATION FOR A TOWN
The town of Bitche, in Alsace, a thirdclass fortress in IST], hasbeen decorated, with the Cross of the Legion of .Honour uv President Poincare. Her story is remarkable one, and not very generally "imeuiberal. Defended in lS7l"by Colonel Teyssier in command of a garrison of MOO men, it held up for 11 period of eight months 10,000 Germans. It was stii) holding out, .forgotten', by the, contra! authorities, after Paris had capitulated and liio peace'.preliminaries liadboeii signed'at Versailles: Teyssior was' woll . aware of what had happened, but, without orders, he refused absolutely to sur- ; render. It was not until lie received a : message from Paris that he consented ttf leave the town with the full -houo.ma of war. He arid his idea' marched,a\i\s®iwiti tiho flag presented them by the woken of I Bitche under the fire of the Bavarian ; guns. And so Bitche was ncvereonqner- • ed, and to-day, after many yearaj- oo'mes the reward of the Cross of thelLogion of Honour. Other veterans of jiS7o,";.Strasbou- M Phalsbourg, are at . {time,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 278, 20 August 1919, Page 7
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175WAR DECORATION FOR A TOWN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 278, 20 August 1919, Page 7
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