WOMAN MOURNS TRAITOR TO FRANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3596, 7 October 1920, Page 3

WOMAN MOURNS TRAITOR TO FRANCE.

Secret exhuminatiou of the remains of Colonel Wolifff, former commander of Coouel Wolff, former commander from the tomb where the body was placed, near Luneville, after executiou ordered by court martial in September, 1314, presents a mystery thus far unsolved, although a Luneville court of inquiry believes it has a clue to the identity of a heavily veiled woman who removed fragments of the bone and flesh in a common market basket a few weeks ago.

The French censor during the war prohibited any reference to the reason for Wolff’s execution, bud it is now known that he was accused of pro-Gor-man sympathies and a readiness to surrender to a brother in the enemy’s forces while charged to defend a line between Epinal and Rozelieurcs. ‘ His forces were decimated in the German advance, and Wolff was said to have tied a handkerchief To a sword and awaited capture. Instead of German, French officers arrived and arrested 1 Wolff. He was placed immediately before a court: martial and shot the following morning.

He was hurried a few kilometres from Luneville in a grave, because it was known by the French population of what he had been accused, Fut once a year an unknown woman placed a wreath of flowers on the grave.