GIRL'S SPLENDID DARING.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1917, Page 8

GIRL'S SPLENDID DARING.

__ _ i«r». 1:r t 1-, '•/ FRENCH HEROtNE'GI' : TOtl!tl <; GREAT EXPLOITS, Paris, Jan. 22. A matinee was organised yesterday, at the Sorbonne, 'in honor of Frencli ...womanhood, when the heroism was celebrated of a girl of twenty-one, Marcelle Scmmer, who has'already been deeorateu with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. During the retreat in August 191!. after the French had crossed the Sommc and its canal, pursued by the enemy. Mile, Marcelle Semnier had the presence of mind to open vhe sluice gates in order to prevent the Germans from crossing tlu' canal. This act of heroism was carried out, though the Germans deliberately fired on her. As a result, the enemy army corps was held up until the following morning. In the village she picked up and hiH underground sixteen exhausted French soldiers, whom she subsequently helped to escape in civilian clothes. Later she was caught by the enemy in the net of feeding a French soldier hidden in a thicket, and was condemned to death. She was on the point of being executed when French artillery fire dispersed the Germans. ■"" She was again taken prisoner while serving as a guide to a patrol, but, after being shut, up in a church, she escaped in the night through a shell-hole, and regained the French lines.—Wireless Press. Paris, Jan. 22, M. Klote, the deputy and chairman of the Budget Commission, who paid a warm tribute to Mile. Seinmer, referred to the action of tin 'British general w )i o later in the. year oecupiety.Eelusier, To show resjjecb to tliaiijpnutteful lioroino.i hn ordered his" men td'ttufttte'licr when Ritapassed and never tfiftlress her unless iiioj \iei\e first spoken to.—Kcutcr,