A FRENCH HEROINE

Southland Times, Issue 18821, 14 May 1920, Page 3

A FRENCH HEROINE

DIED IN GERMAN PRISON

At Cologne, on February 19 the remains of Mile, de Bettinges were exhumed af the Weatfriedhof cemetery,- anti the ntxt day amid every mark of respect from representatives of the British, Allied, ami Associated troops, the coffin was placed in a funeral coach bound for Lille, the deceased lady’s native city, for reburial. The coffin was borne on a British guncarriage, and in addition to companies of French troops there were detachments form the Northumberland Fusiliers and Middlesex Regiment. The party was from the Northumberland Fusiliers and wreaths were carried by British and Allied troop?. The decorations awarded the heroine were also carried. On account of the assistance which she rendered to British and French troops, Milo, de Bettinges came under the notice of the German?, and was arrested and condemned to death. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. In captivity her loyalty to France incurred the displeasure of her gaolers and she was removed to Germany. The treatment she received while a prisoner resulted in the br akdovvn of her health, and she died in a German prison in 1918.