FRENCH GIRL PROPHETESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1880, 21 September 1918, Page 1

FRENCH GIRL PROPHETESS.

The story of C'hiirc Forehand, the wonderful girl prophetess of the war, was related hy the Hon. T. M. Wilford during the eoursc of his war lecture, at Wellington, recently. “Claire Forehand,” said Mr Wilford, “is a .young girl peasant of twenty-two years of age—horn in hilly, wooded country, which makes for meditation, in the parish of Louhlaude. You reach (hero from the railway station of Cholet, close to the border of Vendee. She is the seer and the prophetess of the war —a deeply religions girl, who has written works worthy of St. Theresa. At the end of 1916 she announced to France that some of her most powerful politicians were [•lotting against her, hut prophesied that they would speedily he punished. The prosecution of the. Bonnet: Rouge gang, the execution of 8010, and the imprisonment of Mil Ivy, and Ihiif arch-traitor Caillaux followed. She warned the French generals that their front would he pierced when it. was pierced. They till had announced that it would hold. The Bishop of Poitiers and the Archbishop of Bordeaux have proclaimed her prophecies. President Poincare met her, and a French general who won fame at Verdun wont to Louhlade to consult her. Clemeneeau, the present French Premier, met her. She asked him to recall General M , who had been in disgrace, and give him his command hack, and he would make good. General M was given his command, and stopped the Boche at Cumpeigne. She prophesied that the Italians would annihilate the Austrians at the Piave river and save Venice. This has come true. Soldiers swear by her; generals consult her; and France awaits her pronouncement with every interest; while the Louhlaude parish has become a place of pilgrimage.”