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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1927.
HIDDEN FOR FOUR YEARS.
HUSSAR SHELVÉRED BY BRAVE FRENCHWOMEN.
Probably the most striking-de- An epic story of how a Belgian. velopment in the technology of mother and her daughter risked glass-making is the recent dis- their lives for four years to shel- covery of Mr. F. E. Lamploughter and save an English soldier that a glass can be made which is revealed, for the first time in a will allow of the passage of the back of war reminisconces which whole of the vital rays of sun- Brigadier-General E. L. Spears, light. Ordinary glass absorba formerly M.P. for Loughborough, these rays in addition to some ofis publishing. the photographie portion of the It is because those two women ultra-violet rays. The vital rays
are now in a state of abject are those which have a wave poverty and sickness that General length of 2.900 to 3,100 Angstorm Spears, hoping to procure #ssis- anits and which, of course, are tance for them, recounts their non-luminous and are not visible heroism. to the eye.
Modern medical research has definitely proved that the benefi- cial effects of sunlight are chiefly due to these actinic rays, and it is now well established that real sonlight has
curative a great effect on tuberculosis, rickets, skin digenses, catarrh, neuritis, rheumatism, St. Vitus' dance, and other ailments. This has led to the open-air treatment of patients in a number of sanatoria because the light passing through ordinary window glass was robbed of all its valuable ray. Obviously such a precetture may lead to chills and objectionable complications, and as the new glass, which has been called "vita glass," enables these rays to pass through completely it is olivious that there are consider able advantages in its use.
The soldier, Corporal Patrick Fowler, was in General Spears'a regiment, the 11th Hussars,
In January 1915 the corporal got cut off from his regiment near Le Cateau. He hid in the woods near the village of Bertry until he found in a semi-exhausted was condition by Louis Basquin, son- in-law of Madame Belmont-Gobert, of Bertry. The district was occu- pied by Gerns.
House Searched by the Enemy.
Basquin obtained food for the goldier, concealed him in a hay stack, and at nightfall took him to the house of his mother-in-law. She and her daughter sheltered. him until a month before the Armistice.
For four years, writes General Spears, he (Fowler)... remained concealed In that house. The owner, Madame, lielmont-Gobert,
widow, never flinched in her self-imposed duty of looking after and hiding the man."
Fowler's hiding place was a cupboard in the kitchen-living ram. Day and night he spent there, coming out at times when
The glass has been introduced into a number of schools, institu- Lions, sanatoria, poultry
and farms, and in all cases favourable reports are now available' of the health-giving properties of the glass. It is stated that chickens hatched in incubators and then reared in pers protected with vitu glass thrive much batter than was quiet to skip for exercise. Thres became hard. The Chase brought up without this pro- family had barely enough food to tortion. A report from the Bar-reap them alive, yet Fowler had por Adams Agricultural College always his share. Then he fell states that in the brooder-house, and the problem of his main- fitted with vita glass phenomenal tenance became acute. aueress was met with, 97 per cent. Several of the villagers of the chicks being raised. Re-Madame Belmont. Gobert money porta from medical officers of to buy him food and medicine. health for schools and principals often the house was searched. of schools for backward children Önce or twice a German soldier are equally enthusiastic.
but his hand on the cupboard plass is supplied in wo forms:- latch.
Vita
1. Cathedral vita ass with a semi-transparent surface about onverighth of an inch thick. The cost of this over and abov, ordin- ary while enthedral glass is about Ls. 96. fol.
2. Clear vita glass, similar to crdinary transparent sheet kiss, is note in sizes up to 60in. x 40in. and about one-tenth of an inch thick. The cost over and above that for ordinary 21oz. glass would be about 3 for a window 644. x 3TL
Both types can be made up into lended lights in just the same way as ordinary glass. Vita glass. is manufactured by Messrs. Chance Bros. and Co.. Smethwick.
in this connexion it is also in- teresting to note that the flexible! glass made from the synthetic resin from uren and formaldehyde also allows for the passage of ultra-violet light.
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At times German soldiers would be billeted in the house. They would sleep in the lot.
White-haired and Stooping. General Spears. then describes Fowler's escape after the Germans left. Bertry.!
In 1918, he mays. Liestemmi Drake's troops of the 11th Bussars Germans were riding after the down the same road along which they had retired in 1914.
They met a white-haired man, bent, in clothing stooping and that might ence have been khaki. No one recognised in him young Corporal Fowler. The troep was his own, and Brake his own troop leader.
The officers of the 11th Hussar subscribed a handsome piece of plate to the heroic Madame Bel- bont Gobert..
The War Office was told the story, and decided in its wisdom that there was no precedent for the case of Madame Belmont
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Princess Mary, wearing, acade- mile rahes, and Visccunt Lascelles. the distinguished were among
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had been for the time he "billeted" on her. So she received 2014 franes. 50 cents (then equal to about £7) from a grateful country in 1921.
An O.B.E.
company assembled in the Royal This sem. however, the good College of Surgeons, Landon,ady had to use to repay the neigh when Sir Parkeley Moynihan de-hours who had contributed to livered the Ilamerian ofation.
Fowler's keep, and who had help- Sir Berkeley said man's feed pay for medicing for him was one long warfare. Man- the whole human race-was heset, by during an illness, he had. The officers of the 11th Hussars eon- unresting, relentless enemies. "Against them, or defence, iftributed a further 241, ever we are, to subdue them," ka I hope when maxt we consider went on, must be carefully plan-greeting monument in Eandon to fed and diligently strengthened non-British the ting to ro up In this centenary year of Lis will be the neto dame Bet
mont-Gobert, for we reluice to claim the event-
esk viedery ever won by mankind Official recognition of Madame araipat our enemies. Those who Belmont Gobert's heroism was are in active work to-day are, made in March 1919 by the British perhaps, unable to measure the Government in making her extent of the victory, for during honorary officer of the Order of the fight. lasting now for the British Empire.
sixty years, our standards have
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