AN HEROIC DEED.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 July 1918, Page 7

AN HEROIC DEED.

L.ieut.-General Sir Robert BadenPowell, addressing a central meeting of Boy Scouts at the Guildhall, told of work done by French Boy Scouts in the region of the fighting line. 'A heroic deed by one French Boy Scout was described in a letter found on ttie body of a dead German. General Baden-Powell read the letter, which is as follows: "A traitor has just been shot —a little French lad belonging to one of those gymnastic societies which wear the tri-colour button. The poor little fellow in his Infatuation wished to be a hero. A German column was passing along a wooded defile, ana the boy was caught and asked whether the French were about. He refused to give any information. Fifty yards further on fire was opened from the cover of the wood. The-prisoner was asked in French if he had known that the enemy was in the wood and he did not deny it. "He went with firm step to a telegraph post and stood up against it with a green vineyard behind him and received the volley from the firing party with a proud smile on his face. Infatuated boy! It was a pity to see such wasted courage."